Fl. c. 105 BC. From Rome; studied at Athens; served as praetor and governor of Sardinia. Wrote and spoke in both Latin and Greek. Completed his philosophical education at Athens as an Epicurean, celebrated a minor triumph over bandits during his Sardinian command, and was later convicted of provincial extortion; the satirist Lucilius mocked him for affecting Greek manners and speech, and Cicero cites the episode in De Finibus I.9.
