Quintus Hortensius Hortalus
See also: Quintus Hortensius
Quintus Hortensius Hortalus , (towards 114 av. J.C, 50 av. J.C) was a Roman speaker famous, a considered lawyer, and a politician of the ancient Rome.
He was the Master of the pleadings in Rome, until he loses his causes against Cicéron at the time of the lawsuits against Quinctius in -81 and against Verres in -70. Cicéron and Hortensius was nevertheless large friends, and Hortensius defended it at the time of its exile in -58. They pled together in the lawsuit Milon in -52.
In spite of a traditional Course honorum (Praetor in -72, Consul in -69), Hortensius did not pledge marked in the Roman policy. He preferred to benefit from the life in epicurean.
Cicéron in its Brutus (short history of the Roman art of public speaking), published after the death of his/her friend, praises his abundant and flowered eloquence, Asian model of the genre. Unfortunately, none of its speeches reached us.
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