A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

4. M.Tullius, on whose behalf Cicero spoke in B. C. 71. It is quite uncertain who this M. Tullius was. He was not a freedman, as appears from Cicero's speech, but it is equally clear that he was a different person both from M. Tullius Decula, consul B. C. 81. and from M. Tullius Albinovanus. The fragments of Cicero's speech for Tullius were published for the first time from a palimpsest manuscript by Angelo Mai. An analysis of it is given by Drumann. (Geschichte Roms, vol. v. p. 2.58, foil.)