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Quintus Tullius Cicero
Quintus Tullius Cicero
c. 102 BCE–c. 43 BCE · Rome
Quintus Tullius Cicero (c. 102-43 BCE) was a Roman politician and military officer, the younger brother of the famous orator Marcus Tullius Cicero. He held public offices, served as a commander under Julius Caesar in Gaul, and is sometimes credited with a short handbook on electioneering (the Commentariolum Petitionis) addressed to his brother, though its authorship is debated. He died in the proscriptions of 43 BCE.
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Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.
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