Bust of Marco Tullio Cicero
Being the greatest lawyer in Rome allowed Marco Tullio Cicerone (106-43 BC) to accumulate a huge personal wealth.
Thirty years of honorable career and very salty bills yielded the speaker of Arpino a real estate assets worth a total of about 13 million sesterces, including a domus on the Palatine Hill, one in Pozzuoli, one in Tusculum and another in Formia, all decidedly luxurious and not really within anyone's reach.
And it doesn't end here:Cicero also owned other properties in the Urbe that he rented at a high price, for an annual profit of 80,000 sesterces, penny more penny less.