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Gnaeus Octavius (consul 87 BC)Gnaeus Octavius entered the Roman political arena as a member of the Plebeian gens Octavia. His father held the consulship in 128 BC, establishing a family…
Lucius Cornelius CinnaLucius Cornelius Cinna entered the world before 130 BC into a patrician family that lacked recent distinction. The historian Theodor Mommsen once argued the…
Quintus Caecilius Metellus NumidicusQuintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus traveled to Athens in his youth. There he studied under Carneades, a celebrated philosopher and master of oratory.