person
Marcus Tullius Cicero (the younger)
Cicero's son
Son of the orator Cicero; a man of no great gifts who reached the consulship of 30 BC largely on his father's name — Seneca's example of an office owed to an ancestor.
Reading notes
- On Benefits §4.30.1 Cicero's son
Marcus Tullius Cicero the younger, who reached the consulship of 30 BC chiefly on the strength of his father's name.