[7] Cicero spoke of his character in parallel to his oratorical style: "harsh, unpolished, and austere".
[8] Despite this, Cicero also calls him "a man of the most rigid virtue, and strictly conformable to the doctrine he professed.
"[9] He was the grandson of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus,[10] Thus, he was both a cousin of Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus and also the nephew of Scipio Aemilianus.
With Cynic-like aesthetics, he arranged Punic couches with goatskin covers and Samian pottery.
[12] A disciple of Panaetius (Hecaton of Rhodes) dedicated a treatise called De Officiis to Tubero.