Life of Cicero, 1.3.1

Plutarch  translated by Bernadotte Perrin

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3After he had finished the studies of boyhood, he attended the lectures of Philon the Academic, whom, above all the other disciples of Cleitomachus, the Romans admired for his eloquence and loved for his character. At the same time he consorted with Mucius Scaevola, a statesman and leader of the senate, and was helped by him to an acquaintance with the law; and for a little while he also did military service under Sulla in the war against the Marsians.[4]

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Notes

  • [4] 90-88 B.C. It was under Pompey, however, that Cicero served (Phil. xii. 11, 27).

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