For all his prodigious propaganda for the senatorial nobility, they never considered Cicero more than a useful upstart. The man himself complained about their ingratitude, “Have never made me the slightest return or recompense, material or even verbal.” In 56, he complained of “certain gentlemen” who objected to his owning a villa that once belonged to a leading optimate.
When the aristocratic Q. Metellus Nepos asked Cicero the snobbish question “Who was your father?”, it made Cicero to reply: “I can scarcely ask you the same since your mother has made this question rather difficult to answer.”
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For all his prodigious propaganda for the senatorial nobility, they never considered Cicero more than a useful upstart. The man himself complained about their ingratitude, “Have never made me the slightest return or recompense, material or even verbal.” In 56, he complained of “certain gentlemen” who objected to his owning a villa that once belonged to a leading optimate.
When the aristocratic Q. Metellus Nepos asked Cicero the snobbish question “Who was your father?”, it made Cicero to reply: “I can scarcely ask you the same since your mother has made this question rather difficult to answer.”