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In the year 75 BCE, a Roman aristocrat named Marcus Tullius Cicero

had just been elected to one of his first posts in the government of the Republic.

He was 31 at the time, which made him young for an office holder,

but Cicero was nothing if not ambitious.

He didn't know it yet, but Marcus had embarked on a political career that would make him one of the

most famous Romans of his generation, which is saying something because his generation had no

shortage of famous Romans. He would eventually serve in the Senate with historical giants like

Cato, Mark Antony, Crassus, Pompey, and Julius Caesar himself.

But at the moment, Cicero was but a lowly quaster for the important but rather unexciting province

of Sicily. Being a quaster meant that it was Cicero's job to manage the money coming in from his

particular end of the province. In other words, he was a glorified accountant for a region that

was almost completely agricultural and was mostly valued for its grain supply. Just like his

province, his job was important but unexciting. To spice up his daily routine, Cicero had taken to

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