Lucius Marcius Philippus

Reading notes

• Ad Atticum 12.16 §1 this solitude --- which I fear Philippus will break up

  L. Marcius Philippus (consul 56 BC) owned a villa near Cicero's retreat at Astura and would be a near neighbour whose visits might intrude on Cicero's chosen solitude. He was connected to Caesar's circle, being stepfather to the young Octavian.

• Ad M. Brutum 1.15 §7 Philippus moved a statue

  L. Marcius Philippus (cos. 38 BC) was Octavian's stepfather (having married his mother Atia); he moved in the Senate that a statue be erected for the young Caesar, one of the first honours voted to Octavian in 44–43 BC.

• Ad M. Brutum 1.17 §5 Philippus who has granted less to a stepson than Cicero is granting to a stranger

  Lucius Marcius Philippus (cos. suff. 38 BC) was Octavian's stepfather, having married Atia (Octavian's mother) after Gaius Octavius died; Brutus's thrust is that even the stepfather — with a familial obligation — was less obsequious toward Octavian than Cicero, who has no blood tie whatsoever.

• On Duties §2.59 Lucius Philippus, son of Quintus

  Lucius Marcius Philippus (consul 91 BC), a leading orator, who boasted of winning the highest honours without ever giving public games. Distinct from the later Philippus who married Caesar's niece.

• On Duties §2.73 Philippus acted ruinously when, as tribune

  Lucius Marcius Philippus, as tribune (104 BC) proposing an agrarian law, declared there were not two thousand men of property in the state. Cicero condemns the speech as tending toward an equalisation of wealth.