his lone surviving writing is a letter in volume XV of Cicero's Ad familiares.
This person was kicked upstairs to the governorship of Cyprus in 58 BCE and his lone surviving writing is a letter in volume XV of Cicero's Ad familiares. He was politically allied with Calpurnius Bibulus, though, after the defeat at Thapsus of his military ally Metellus Scipio, he committed suicide, allegedly by ripping-out his intestines, after he had seen the last of his supporters off from Utica. For ten points, name this leader of the Optimates and enemy of the first triumvirate, the great-grandson of a censor of the same name.
This person was kicked upstairs to the governorship of Cyprus in 58 BCE and
Marcus Porcius {Cato} the {Younger} (prompt on “Cato”)