o the intercession of Marcus. Both the brothers fell victims to
the proscription which followed Caesar's death, Quintus being put to
death in 43, some time before Marcus. His marriage with Pomponia was
very unhappy, and he was much under the influence of his slave Statius.
Though trained on the same lines as Marcus he never spoke in public, and
even said, "One orator in a family is enough, nay even in a city."
Though essentially a soldier, he took considerable interest in
literature, wrote epic poems, tragedies and annals, and translated plays
of Sophocles. There are extant four letters written by him (one to his
brother Marcus, and three to his freedman Tiro) and a short paper, _De
Petitione Consulatus_ (on canvassing for the consulship), addressed to
his brother in 64. Some consider this the work of a rhetorician of later
date. A few hexameters by him on the twelve signs of the Zodiac are
quoted by Ausonius.

Cicero in several of his _Letters_ (ed. Tyrrell and Purser); _pro
Sestio_, 31; Caesar, _Bell. Gal._; Appian, _Bell. Civ._ iv. 20; Dio
Cassius, xl. 7, xlvii. 10; text of the _De Petit, Cons._ in A.
Eussner, _Commentariolum Petitionis_ (1872), see also R.Y. Tyrrell in
_Hermathena_, v. (1877), and A. Beltrami, _De Commentariolo Petitionis
Q. Ciceroni vindicando_ (1892); G. Boissier, _Cicero and His Friends_
(Eng. trans., 1897), especially pp. 235-241.

3. MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, only son of the orator and his wife Terentia,
was born in 65 B.C. At the age of seventeen he served with Pompey in
Greece, and commanded a squadron of cavalry at the battle of Pharsalus.
In 45 he was sent to Athens to study rhetoric and philosophy, but
abandoned himself to a life of dissipation. It was during his stay at
Athens that his father dedicated the _de Officiis_ to him. After the
murder of Caesar (44) he attracted the notice of Brutus, by whom he was
offered the post of military tribune, in which capacity he rendered good
service to the republican cause. After the battle of Philippi (42), he
took refuge with Sextus Pompeius in Sicily, where the remnants of the
republican forces were collected. He took advantage of the amnesty
granted by the treaty of Misenum (39) to return to Rome, where he took
no part in public affairs, but resumed his former dissipated habits. In
spite of this, he received signal marks of distinction from Octavian,
who not only nominated him augur, but accepted him as his colleague in
the consulsh