had worried Cicero when Marcus was a student in Athens became a lifelong habit. He was reported to down nine or ten pints at a session and once when drunk he threw a goblet at Augustus’s greatest general, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. Fortunately, he inherited his father’s administrative competence (and, apparently, his sense of humor). Augustus seems to have liked him: he was appointed Augur (according to Appian, “by way of apology for Cicero’s sacrifice”) and in 30 he served as Consul. He was twice a provincial governor. Presumably he had no son, for, after him, nothing more is heard of the
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