Titus Betucius Barrus

Titus Betucius Barrus was an orator of the Betucia gens of ancient Rome who lived in the 1st century BCE.

He was a native of Asculum in Picenum. The orator Cicero described him as the most eloquent of all orators outside of Rome. ^[1]

In Cicero's time several of his orations delivered at Asculum were extant, and also one against Quintus Servilius Caepio, which was spoken at Rome, and which achieved some renown (Cicero described it as "famous"). ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Notes

1. Ramage, Edwin S. (1961). "Cicero on Extra-Roman Speech". Transactions of the American Philological Association . 92: 481–494. doi:10.2307/283832 . Retrieved 2025-11-25.
2. Cicero, Brutus , 46.
3. Long, George (1864). The Decline of the Roman Republic. Vol. 2. George Bell & Sons. p. 116. Retrieved 2025-11-25.
4. Dart, Christopher J. (2014). The Social War, 91 to 88 BCE: A History of the Italian Insurgency Against the Roman Republic. Ashgate Publishing Limited. p. 93. ISBN   9781472416780 . Retrieved 2025-11-25.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Smith, William (1870). "M. Bambalio". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. p. 459.