person
Marcus Cornelius Cethegus
Cethegus
also: Cethego, M. Cethegum
Consul of 204 BC and a famed orator whom Ennius called "the marrow of Persuasion" (Suadae medulla); Cato held his quaestorship under him and recalls his eloquence in old age.
Reading notes
- Cato the Elder, On Old Age §50 whom Ennius rightly called the marrow of Persuasion
Marcus Cornelius Cethegus (consul 204 BC), whom Ennius praised as Suadae medulla, 'the marrow of Persuasion' (Suada being the Latin equivalent of the Greek goddess Peitho), the earliest named master of Roman oratory.