Career
When praetor urbanus (70 British Columbia) he presided at the trial of Verres. In the same year he was appointed to succeed Lucius Licinius Lucullus in the government of Cilicia and the command of the war against Mithradates. He wrecked Roman control of the region because he released Lucullus"s soldiers from his command, but he himself was unable to control the soldiery and was in turn replaced by Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus according to the provisions of the lex Manilia.
Little else is known of him except that he declared in favor of capital punishment for the Catilinarian conspirators.