A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

of Asculum, a town in Picenum, is described by Cicero (Cic. Brut. 46), as the most eloquent of all orators out of Rome. In Cicero's time several of his orations delivered at Asculum were extant, and also one against Caepio, which was spoken at Rome. This Caepio was Q. Servilius Caepio, who perished in the social war, B. C. 90. [CAEPIO.]