Publius Canutius
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Publius Canutius or Cannutius was described by Cicero
as the most eloquent orator of the senatorial order.
Canutius was born in 106 B.C., the same year as Cicero. After the death of Publius Sulpicius Rufus
, who was one of the most celebrated orators of his time, and who left no orations behind him, Canutius composed some and published them under the name of Sulpicius.
Canutius is frequently mentioned in Cicero's oration for Aulus Cluentius Habitus
, as having been engaged in the prosecution of several of the parties connected with that disgraceful affair.
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief...
as the most eloquent orator of the senatorial order.
Canutius was born in 106 B.C., the same year as Cicero. After the death of Publius Sulpicius Rufus
Publius Sulpicius Rufus
Publius Sulpicius Rufus was an orator and statesman of the Roman Republic, legate in 89 to Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo in the Social War, and in 88 tribune of the plebs....
, who was one of the most celebrated orators of his time, and who left no orations behind him, Canutius composed some and published them under the name of Sulpicius.
Canutius is frequently mentioned in Cicero's oration for Aulus Cluentius Habitus
Aulus Cluentius Habitus
Aulus Cluentius Habitus, a wealthy citizen of Larinum in Samnium, and subject of a Roman cause célèbre.In 74 BC he accused his stepfather Statius Albius Oppianicus of an attempt to poison him; had it been successful, the property of Cluentius would have fallen to his mother Sassia. Oppianicus was...
, as having been engaged in the prosecution of several of the parties connected with that disgraceful affair.