Optimates

Marcus Tullius Cicero ( , ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, and writer who tried to uphold principles during the political crises of the Roman Republic that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. The extensive writings of Cicero include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy, and politics. He is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists and the innovator of what became known as "Ciceronian rhetoric". Cicero was educated in Rome and in Greece. He came from a wealthy municipal () family of the Roman

assassin of Julius Caesar

Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (, ; 138–78 BC), commonly known as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman of the late Roman Republic. Coming to fame for his military exploits, he was the first general during the late republic to march on Rome and win a civil war. After purging his opponents, he assumed the dictatorship, sought to strengthen the republican system by means of reforms to the constitution, and resigned his plenary powers after their enactment.

Roman statesman, general and writer (95–46 BC)

Lucius Licinius Lucullus (; 118–57/56 BC) was a Roman general and statesman, closely connected with Lucius Cornelius Sulla. In culmination of over 20 years of almost continuous military and government service, he conquered the eastern kingdoms in the course of the Third Mithridatic War, exhibiting extraordinary generalship in diverse situations, most famously during the Siege of Cyzicus in 73–72 BC, and at the Battle of Tigranocerta in Armenian Arzanene in 69 BC. His command style received unusually favourable attention from ancient military experts, and his campaigns appear to have been studi

Roman general and consul (c.102 BC-48 BC)

Ancient Roman consul, general and statesman. A leader of the Optimates

ancient Roman consul and optimate

Ancient Roman statesman and general

Roman politician and reformer (c. 124 – 91 BC)

ancient Roman politician

Roman consul 54 BC

Roman consul 138 BC

Roman consul in 73 BC

first husband of Octavia Minor and Roman consul in 50 BC

son of the Roman dictator Sulla

Roman consul 54 BC

Roman consul 60 BC

Roman consul 69 BC

Roman consul in 78 BCE

consul 87 BC

Roman consul in 51 BCE

Roman consul 98 BC

Roman consul 57 BC

Roman consul

Roman consul 57 BC

Roman consul in 119 BCE

Ancient Roman consul (113 BC)

Roman consul 79 BC

Roman consul 117 BC

ancient Roman politician, consul in 49 BCE

Roman senator and tribune in 133 BC

politician

Roman consul 67 BC

Roman consul 49 BC

Roman senator involved in the death of Lucius Appuleius Saturninus

1st century Roman naval commander

officer to Pompey in 49 BC