Marcus Tullius Cicero reports that Greek philosophers considered misogyny to be caused by gynophobia, a fear of women .< ref name =" Cicero "> Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tusculanae Quaestiones, Book 3, Chapter 11.

Cicero reports the myth in this way: They tell us that one day as the land was being ploughed in the territory of Tarquinii, and a deeper furrow than usual was made, suddenly Tages sprang out of it and addressed the ploughman.

Cicero reports in In Verrem, " pro mortuo sublatus brevi postea mortuus " (" taken away for a dead man, shortly thereafter he was dead ").

During the reigns of Claudius and Nero he compiled for his sons, from various sources -- e. g. the Gazette ( Aetablica ), shorthand reports or skeletons ( commentarii ) of Cicero's unpublished speeches, Tiro's life of Cicero, speeches and letters of Cicero's contemporaries, various historical writers, e. g. Varro, Atticus, Antias, Tuditanus and Fenestella ( a contemporary of Livy whom he often criticizes ) -- historical commentaries on Cicero's speeches, of which only five, viz, in Pisonem, pro Scauro, pro Milone, pro Cornelio and in toga candida, in a very mutilated edition, are preserved, under the modern title Q. Asconii Pediani Orationvm Ciceronis qvinqve enarratio.

His friends there included the poets Licinius Calvus, and Helvius Cinna, Quintus Hortensius ( son of the orator and rival of Cicero ) and the biographer Cornelius Nepos, to whom Catullus dedicated a libellus of poems, the relation of which to the extant collection remains a matter of debate.

Among the famous jurists of the republican period are Quintus Mucius Scaevola who wrote a voluminous treatise on all aspects of the law, which was very influential in later times, and Servius Sulpicius Rufus, a friend of Marcus Tullius Cicero.

* Quintus Tullius Cicero, Roman general ( d. 43 BC )

In a letter by Cicero to his brother Quintus in February 54 BC, Cicero said that: " The poems of Lucretius are as you write: they exhibit many flashes of genius, and yet show great mastership.

The author of Commentariolum Petitionis, possibly Cicero's brother, Quintus Cicero, suggests that Catiline was only acquitted by the fact that: " he left the court as poor as some of his judges had been before the trial ," implying that he bribed his judges.

To set the plan in motion, Gaius Cornelius and Lucius Vargunteius were to assassinate Cicero early in the morning on November 7, 63 BC, but Quintus Curius, a senator, who would eventually become one of Cicero's chief informants warned Cicero of the threat through his mistress Fulvia.

* Quintus Tullius Cicero, Commentariolum Petitionis

Other Roman troops are wintering among the Nervii under Quintus Tullius Cicero ( brother of the famous orator ).

The most notable victim, Marcus Tullius Cicero, who had opposed Caesar and excoriated Antony in his Philippics, came as no surprise ; nor did the proscription of Marcus Favonius, a follower of Cato and a constant opponent of both triumvirates ; but the proscription of Caesar's legate Quintus Tullius Cicero ( Marcus Tullius Cicero's younger brother ) seems to be motivated by pure spite.

* Quintus Tullius Cicero, younger brother of Marcus Tullius Cicero who served in government as an author

According to the coherent chronology of Cicero, Cato was born in 234 BC, in the year before the first Consulship of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, and died at the age of 85, in the consulship of Lucius Marcius Censorinus and Manius Manilius.

* Electra, a lost play by Quintus Tullius Cicero of which nothing is known but the name and that it was " a tragedy in the Greek style "

Sallust, Titus Munatius Plancus and Quintus Pompeius Rufus also tried to blame Cicero, one of the leaders of senators ' opposition to triumvirate, for his support of Milo.

* Quintus Tullius Cicero, one of Caesar's generals and younger brother of Marcus

* Titus Furius Brocchus, the uncle of Quintus Ligarius, a soldier defended by Cicero.

When Ambiorix and the Eburones rebelled in 53 BC, the remaining Nervii joined the uprising and besieged Quintus Tullius Cicero – brother of the orator – and his legion in their winter camp until they were relieved by Caesar in person.

* Quintus Fabius Sanga, warned Cicero about the conspiracy of Catiline, after being informed by the ambassadors of the Allobroges.

Most were not so lucky ; amongst the most prominent men to suffer death were the orator Cicero, his younger brother Quintus Tullius Cicero ( one of Julius Caesar's legates ) and Marcus Favonius.

Thus Cicero terms the baths at the villa of his brother Quintus balnearia.

Other major historical figures who appear and play prominent parts in the series include Mithridates VI of Pontus, Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, Publius Rutilius Rufus, Quintus Sertorius, Marcus Livius Drusus, Jugurtha of Numidia, Spartacus, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, Marcus Porcius Cato, Publius Clodius, Titus Annius Milo, Vercingetorix, Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Antonius, Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Caesarion and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.

Their attempts to amass power through populist tactics were opposed by the conservative elite within the Roman Senate, among them Cato the Younger with the frequent support of Cicero.

On 16 November, Clodius took office as tribune of the plebs and began preparations for his destruction of Cicero and an extensive populist legislative program in order to bind as much of the community as possible to his policies as beneficiaries.

* December 7 – Marcus Tullius Cicero is killed in Formiae in a litter going to the seaside, by a party led by a military tribune, Popilius Laenas.

* Publius Clodius Pulcher, Roman tribune, institutes a monthly corn dole for poor Romans, and exiles Cicero from the city.

Caesar's agrarian law was carried through, and the Triumviri then proceeded to allow the demagogue Publius Clodius Pulcher's election as tribune of the people, successfully ridding themselves both of Marcus Tullius Cicero and Cato the Younger, both adamant opponents of the Triumviri.

As tribune, he pushed through an ambitious legislative program, including a grain dole, but is chiefly remembered for his feud with Cicero and Milo, whose supporters murdered him in the street.

Marcus Cispius was a tribune of the plebs in 57 BC, and was among those tribunes who actively supported Cicero in his efforts to overturn the legislation that brought about his exile.

As tribune of the people in 61 BC, he was chiefly instrumental in securing the acquittal of the notorious Publius Clodius when charged with having profaned the mysteries of Bona Dea ( Cicero, Ad.

In 63 BC, he was elected tribune of the plebs for the following year, and assisted the consul, Marcus Tullius Cicero, in dealing with the Catiline conspiracy.

During his term of office Clodius, now a tribune of the people, moved against his enemy Cicero on the basis that the latter, as consul of 63 BCE, had put Roman citizens to death without trial.

Cicero hoped for Lentulus ' aid against Clodius < ref > Cicero, < i > ad Quintum Fratrem </ i > i. 2 ; although the praetor did, with other senior figures, attempt to persuade Pompeius to act to protect Cicero this failed, as Pompeius refused to act against an elected tribune on his own authority < ref > Cicero, < i > in Pisonem </ i > 77.

In spite of his bad reputation, however, he was elected tribune in 71 BC, which meant that he again joined the Senate ; then praetor in 66 BC, and finally consul with Marcus Tullius Cicero in 63 BC.

Cicero was recalled from exile in 57 BC with the help of his ally Titus Annius Milo, who was tribune at the time.

He may have been aedile in 60 BC, when Cicero mentions that Nigidius was in a position to cite ( compellare ) a jury, or a tribune of the plebs in 59.

When the tribune Publius Servilius Rullus introduced his agrarian law ( 63 ), these lands, which had been originally assigned to the Roman people by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, were expressly exempted from sale, which roused the indignation of Marcus Tullius Cicero ( De lege agraria, i. 4, ii.

* Lucius Ninnius Quadratus, a tribune of the plebs in 58 BC and a warm friend to Roman Senator Marcus Tullius Cicero

Towards the end of the Republic, Cicero ( Murena, 72 – 3 ) still describes gladiator shows as ticketed — their political usefulness was served by inviting the rural tribunes of the plebs, not the people of Rome en masse – but in Imperial times, poor citizens in receipt of the corn dole were allocated at least some free seating, possibly by lottery.

Cicero considered the abolition of nexum primarily a political maneuver to appease the common people ( plebs ): the law was passed during the Conflict of the Orders, when plebeians were struggling to establish their rights in relation to the hereditary privileges of the patricians.

The plebs and their support of popular politicians continued as a threat to the mos and elite consensus into the late Republic, as evidenced in the rhetoric of Cicero.