ABSTRACT
It is a remarkable fact that in the hot chase which historians for centuries have made after the minutest events of Cicero’s life, the son, whose career might at least serve as a foil for the father’s, has found no biographer. Yet it is quite possible to sketch the young man’s career in some detail. In fact such a sketch takes an almost autobiographical form, since a large part of our information is drawn from the letters of young Cicero himself. From these letters and from those of his father, we get such a distinct impression of the young man’s personality as few other characters of antiquity give us; while the escapades of the young Roman student, his promises of reform, and his pleas for more money, present, in outline, the true predecessor of the student of to-day.
