Ed.: Cicero’s works are conveniently available in the Loeb Classical Library series, although better
Latin texts are available in Teubner and Budé (CUF) editions. A.S. Pease, M. Tvlli Ciceronis
De divinatione (1920–1923), ed. and comm.: highly recommended.
R. Philippson, “Cicero: Philosophische Schriften,” RE 7A.1 (1939) 1104–1192; T.A. Dorey, ed., Cicero
(1965); P. MacKendrick, The Philosophical Books of Cicero (1989); G. Striker, “Cicero and Greek
Philosophy,” HSPh 97 (1995) 53–61; J. Leonhardt, Ciceros Kritik der Philosophenschulen (1999).
Daryn Lehoux
Q. Tullius Cicero (55 – 43 BCE)
Younger brother of C, Quintus Tullius was born 102 BCE, and similarly educated in
Athens, but did not equal his brother’s genius. He was a good soldier and had a respectable
cursus honorum. He governed Asia from 61 to 58, served under C’s command in Gaul
from 54 to 51 and the next year under Marcus’ in Cilicia. He joined Pompey during the
Civil War. After Pharsalus, he returned to Rome in 47. In 43 he died with his son, betrayed
by his own slaves. Only four short letters of Quintus Tullius survived: one to M. Tullius
Cicero, three to M. Tullius Tiro. But he is said to have written four tragedies. We are also
able to read a poem which is made up of 20 hexameters and is doubtfully attributed to him;
this poem was transmitted by Ausonius (Ecl. 25) in order to compare his own poetry; it deals
with zodiacal signs, but the astronomical description is poor. The zodiac is only used to
illustrate in a poetical way the calendar of seasons.
Ed.: Blänsdorf (1995) 181–183; FLP 179 – 181.
RE 7A.2 (1948) 1286–1306 (#31), F. Münzer.
Christophe Cusset
Turannos (ca 100 BCE – ca 80 CE)
A in G, CMLoc 9.6 (13.310 K.), preserves his mineral- and beeswax-
based hedrike ̄. The word is first attested as a name in the 1st c. BCE (LGPN 3A.437, Pompeii;
4.336, Buzantion). Cf. perhaps CIL 6.3985, Liuia’s slave doctor (Korpela 1987: 176).
Fabricius (1726) 440.
PTK
Turpillianus (ca 30 BCE – 90 CE)
A P., in G CMGen 4.13 (13.736 K.), records his plaster, “The Philo-
sophers’,” based on litharge and khalkitis, for the most infected wounds. The non-
Republican cognomen (also spelled Turpilienus) is attested in the 1st c. CE: PIR2 P-315,
Petronius Turpillianus (cos. 61 CE), cf. Schulze (1904/1966) 246.
Fabricius (1726) 440.
PTK
Turranius (50 – 10 BCE)
Wrote a handbook on agriculture in at least two books (Diome ̄de ̄s, GL 1.368.24). The Latin
of the sole fragment has an archaic flavor, and Diome ̄de ̄s ranges him with Plautus, C,
and C. If he is to be identified with a known individual, two plausible candidates are
T G or Turranius Niger, a rancher from Campi Macri in Cisalpine Gaul to
TURRANIUS