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Cicero's Philarchia and Marius

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Extract

In his biography of Cicero, Plutarch quotes from Augustus an admission that the future emperor had once made use of Cicero's lover of power (philarchia) by offering to support the orator for a second consulship in return for Cicero's help. This incident allegedly dates from the period after Caesar's death when Octavian feared that he would otherwise be left without political support.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1971

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