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RUFUS, SERVIUS (c. 106—43 B.C.) , surnamed Lemonia from the tribe to which he belonged, See also:Roman orator and jurist. He studied See also:rhetoric with See also:Cicero; and accompanied him to See also:Rhodes in 78 B.C. Finding that he would never be able to See also:rival his teacher he gave up rhetoric for See also:law (Cic. See also:Brut. 41). In 63 he was a See also:candidate for the consulship, but was defeated by L. See also:Licinius See also:Murena (q.v.), whom he subsequently accused of See also:bribery; in 51 he was successful. In the See also:Civil See also:War, after considerable hesitation, he threw in his See also:lot with See also:Caesar, who made him proconsul of See also:Achaea in 46. He died in 43 while on a See also:mission from the See also:senate to Antony at Mutina. He was ac-corded a public funeral, and a statue was erected to his memory in front of the Rostra. Two excellent specimens of Sulpicius's See also:style are preserved in Cicero (Ad.

Pam. iv. 5 and 12). See also:

Quintilian (Instil. x. 1, 116) speaks of three orations by Sulpicius as still in existence; one of these was the speech against Murena, another See also:Pro or Contra Aufidium, of whom nothing is known. He is also said to have been a writer of erotic poems. It is as a. jurist, however, that Sulpicius was chiefly distinguished. He See also:left behind him a large number of See also:treatises, and he is often quoted in the See also:Digest, although See also:direct extracts are not found (for titles see See also:Teuffel-See also:Schwabe, Hist. of Roman Lit. 174, 4). His See also:chief characteristics were lucidity, an intimate acquaintance with the principles of civil and natural law, and an unrivalled See also:power of expression. See R. See also:Schneider, De Servio Sulpicio Rufo (See also:Leipzig, 1834); O. Earlowa, Romische Rechtsgeschichte, vol. i.

(Leipzig, 1885) ; the chief See also:

ancient authority is Cicero.

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