Catulus, Quintus Lutatius, Liber de Consulatu

Cicero cites the noble Q. Lutatius Catulus (born by 147 BCE , suicide in 87) as a shining example of affability, erudition, and pure Latin diction, evidenced by his speeches and also his book “on his consulship and military exploits,” which he dedicated to his friend the poet Aulus Furius (Antias). For a work that comes to us only in a few paraphrased snippets (via Plutarch's Greek), Catulus' political autobiography offers little guesswork as to its tone and approach — which ( pace Cicero) clearly was pugnacious and self‐serving.

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