[2] In 63 BC, Sulpicius was a candidate for the consulship, but was defeated by Lucius Licinius Murena, whom he subsequently accused of bribery.
[1] In Cicero's successful oration in defense of Murena against the accusations, he mocked Sulpicius' legal expertise despite their friendship.
[1] He died in 43 BC while on a mission (Latin: in legatione) from the senate to Marcus Antonius at Mutina, and was eulogized in Cicero's ninth Philippic.
[5] Sulpicius was accorded a public funeral; the people erected a statute to his memory in front of the Rostra of Augustus.
[9] His chief characteristics were lucidity, an intimate acquaintance with the principles of civil and natural law, and an unrivaled power of expression.