sentences:  Young Cicero seems also to have visited Asia in his company.When Julius Caesar was at the head of the Roman republic, Cicero obtained from him Roman citizenship for Cratippus, and also induced the council of the Areopagus at Athens to invite the philosopher to remain in the city and to continue his instructions in philosophy.Although Cicero speaks of him as the leading philosopher of the Peripatetic school, it is not certain if he was the scholarch.