person
Marcus Tullius Cicero (the younger)
Cicero the younger
also: filius, Marcus
Cicero's son (65 BC – c. 25 BC); studied at Athens; a tribune under Brutus and later consul under Augustus 30 BC.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 1.2 §1 I have been increased by a little son
The birth of Marcus Tullius Cicero the younger, Cicero's only son, in 65 BC (the parallel Latin dates it by the consuls of 64; the editorial tradition places the letter in 65). 'Terentia safe' reports that his wife came through the delivery well.
- Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.12 §2 the smaller Cicero of ours
Cicero's own son Marcus, then a boy; teaching him has given Cicero some practice for tutoring his nephew.
- Against Catiline, Fourth Speech §23 my little son
Cicero commends his then-two-year-old son to the Senate's care --- a famous closing flourish, contrasting the consul's risk with his hope for the next generation.