Cicero, Roman Writer
(106-43 BCE)




Just the Facts:
  • Name: Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Also known as: Cicero
  • Birth: January 3, 106 BCE, Arpino, Italy
  • Death: December 7, 43 BCE, Formia, Italy
  • Language: Latin
  • Who he was: Roman orator, author, and letter-writer who wrote these orations: In Verrem (Against Verres; In Catilinam (Catiline Orations) I-IV; Philippicae (Philippics); and philosophical works: De Oratore (On the Orator); De Re Publica (On the Commonwealth); De Legibus (On the Laws); De Finibus (On the Ends of Good and Evil); De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods); De Officiis (On Obligations)
  • Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 2); HC; Bloom

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