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Bust of Cicero, Capitoline Museums (photograph by José Luiz, CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Author

Cicero

106–43 BC · Orator, statesman and philosopher

The greatest orator of Rome, consul in the year of Catiline’s conspiracy, and a philosopher who put Greek thought into Latin. Mark Antony had him killed.

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Read Cicero.

38 works

The speeches against Catiline and Antony, the defences of Archias, Caelius and Milo, On Old Age, On Friendship and On Duties.

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