Cicero - Anthony Everitt [198]
212 Marcus throws a goblet at Agrippa Pliny XIV 147
Marcus appointed Augur “by way of apology” App IV 51
“In this way Heaven entrusted to the family of Cicero” Plut Cic XLIX 4
“Nature had stolen away Marcus’s memory” Sen VII 14
213 Augustus and his grandson Plut Cic XLIX 4
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ANTHONY EVERITT’S fascination with ancient Rome began when he studied classics in school and has persisted ever since. He read English literature at Cambridge University and served four years as secretary general of the Arts Council for Great Britain. A visiting professor of arts and cultural policy at Nottingham Trent University and City University, Everitt has written extensively on European culture and development and has contributed to the Guardian and Financial Times since 1994. Cicero, his first biography, was chosen by both Allan Massie and Andrew Roberts as the best book of the year in the United Kingdom. Anthony Everitt lives near Colchester, England’s first recorded town, founded by the Romans, and is working on a biography of Augustus.