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See also:TITUS See also:POMPONIUS See also:ATTICUS (109–32 B.c.) , See also:Roman See also:patron of letters, was See also:born at See also:Rothe three years before See also:Cicero, with whom he and the younger See also:Marius were educated . His name was See also:Titus See also:Pomponius, that of See also:Atticus, by which he is known; being given him afterwards from his See also:long See also:residence in See also:Athens (86-65) and his intimate acquaintance with the See also:Greek literature and See also:language . His See also:family is said to have been of See also:noble and See also:ancient descent; his See also:father belonged to the equestrian See also:order, and was very wealthy . When Pomponius was still a See also:young See also:man his father died, and he at once took the prudent See also:resolution of transferring himself and his See also:fortune to Athens, in order to See also:escape the dangers of the See also:civil See also:war, in which he might have been involved through his connexion with the murdered See also:tribune, Sulpicius See also:Rufus . Here he lived in retirement, devoting himself entirely to study . On his return to See also:Rome, he took See also:possession of an See also:inheritance See also:left him by his See also:uncle and assumed the name of See also:Quintus See also:Caecilius Pomponianus . From this See also:time he kept aloof from See also:political strife, attaching himself to no particular party, and continuing on intimate terms with men so opposed as See also:Caesar and See also:Pompey, Antony and Octavian . His most intimate friend, however, was Cicero, whose See also:correspondence with him extended over many years, and who seems to have found his prudent counsel and sympathy a remedy for all his many troubles . His private See also:life was tranquil and happy . He did not marry till he was fifty-three years of See also:age, and his only See also:child became the wife of See also:Marcus Vipsanius See also:Agrippa, the distinguished See also:minister of See also:Augustus . In 32, being seized with an illness believed to be incurable, he starved himself to See also:death . Of his writings none is extant, but mention is made of two: a Greek See also:history of Cicero's consulship, and some See also:annals, in Latin, an See also:epitome of the events of Roman history down to the See also:year 54 .
His most important See also:work was his edition of the letters addressed to him by Cicero
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He also formed a large library at Athens, and engaged a See also:staff of slaves to make copies of valuable See also:works
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See Life by See also:Cornelius See also:Nepos; See also:Berwick, Lives of Messalla See also:Corvinus and T.P.A
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