![]() ![]() He needed the animals, he explained, because he was trying to launch his political career-and nothing won over voters’ hearts better than live exotic animal hunts in the arena. In several letters sent over the better part of a year, Caelius repeatedly begged Cicero to capture and send him a group of local leopards. ![]() In what might be the world’s oldest recorded awkward situation, the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero spent much of his term as Cilicia’s governor trying to ignore a very specific request from his former legal client Marcus Caelius Rufus.
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