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Cicero was every bit as annoying as Plutarch’s account suggests he was. For his desire for peace, his disaffection for his comrades, and his biting tongue allegedly all got the better of him; he went around the camp gloomily, making inappropriate jokes. He did nothing to help morale, for example, when the troops’ spirits were raised at the sight of seven eagles in Pompey’s camp – a highly pleasing omen. ‘That would be wonderful’, Cicero retorted, ‘if we were at war against jackdaws’.

Kathryn Tempest, Cicero: Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome