But Cicero gives no authority for this.

It is more probable that he lived at the house of one Aculeo, who had married his mother's sister, and had sons with whom Cicero was educated.

Stories are told of his precocious talents and performances such as we are accustomed to hear of many remarkable men--not unfrequently from their own mouths.

It is said of him that he was intimate with the two great advocates of the time, Lucius Crassus and Marcus Antonius the orator, the grandfather of Cicero's future enemy, whom we know as Marc Antony.

Cicero speaks of them both as though he had seen them and talked much of them in his youth.