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Cicero: Early Life, Education, Entry into Politics

Marcus Tullius Cicero was born in the hill town of Arpinum, about 60 miles southeast of Rome. His father, a wealthy member of the equestrian order, paid to educate Cicero and his younger brother in philosophy and rhetoric in Rome and Greece.

After a brief military service, he studied Roman law under Quintis Mucius Scaevola. Cicero publicly argued his first legal case in 81 B.C., successfully defending a man charged with parricide.

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Cicero's close associate Marcus Tullius Tiro, the collector of many of his letters, had once been owned by Cicero's family.

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He was freed in 53 B.C., Cicero declared, "to be our friend instead of our slave."

Cicero was elected quaestor in 75, praetor in 66 and consul in 63—the youngest man ever to attain that rank without coming from a political family.

During his term as consul he thwarted the Catilinian conspiracy to overthrow the Republic. In the aftermath, though, he approved the k