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Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Porcina

Lepidus Porcina

also: M. Aemilius Lepidus, Porcina, M. Aemilius Lepidus, qui est Porcina dictus

Consul of 137 BC, called Porcina; a supreme orator and quite good writer in whom Cicero (Brutus 95-96) first sees in a Latin orator the smoothness of the Greeks and a rounding-off of words. C. Carbo and Ti. Gracchus eagerly heard him.

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