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Cicero

This article is about the Roman orator. For other uses see Cicero (disambiguation)

Marcus Tullius Cicero (January 3, 106 BC - December 7, 43 BC) was an orator and statesman of Rome, generally considered the greatest Latin prose stylist.

Marcus Tullius Cicero at about age 60, from an ancient marble bust

Cicero was born Arpinum, Italy and died in Rome.

He was a leader in the last half-century of the Roman Republic. While his oratory and prose were renouned, his poetry did not enjoy a similar positive reputation.

Cicero was consul in 63 B.C. -- the first man elected consul who had no consular ancestors in more than 30 years. He is particularly noted for his speeches against Catiline, the total of which was four -- two to the senate, and two to the people. He was later exiled, and during this time, wrote down his speeches, before returning to Rome. He was eventually executed, and his hands and head were hung in the rostra in the Roman forum.

Table of contents

1 Major Works:

1.1 Speeches:
1.2 Philosophical works:
1.3 Letters:
1.4 External links:

Major Works:

Speeches:

Pro Quinctio
Pro Roscio Amerino
Pro Roscio Comodeo
de Lege Agraria Contra Rullum
In Verrem
de Imperio Cn. Pompei
Pro Cæcina
Pro Cluentio
Pro Rabirio Perduellionis Reo
In Catilinam I-IV
Pro Murena
Pro Sulla
Pro Flacco
Pro Archia
Post Reditum in Senatu
Post Reditum in Quirites
de Domo Sua
de Haruspicum Responsis
Pro Cn. Plancio
Pro Sestio
In Vatinium
Pro Cælio
de Provinciis Consularibus
Pro Balbo
Pro Milone
In Pisonem
Pro Scauro
Pro Fonteio
Pro Rabirio Postumo
Pro Marcello
Pro Ligario
Pro Deiotaro
Philippics

Philosophical works:

de Inventione
de Optimo Genere Oratorum
Topica
de Oratore
de Fato
Paradoxa Stoicorum
De Partitione Oratoria
Brutus
Orator
De Re Publica
de Consulatu Suo
de Legibus
de Finibus
Tusculanæ Disputationes
de Natura Deorum
Academica
Cato Maior de Senectute
Laelius de Amicitia
de Divinatione
de Officiis
Commentariolum Petitionis

Letters:

ad Atticum
ad Familiares
ad Quintum
ad Brutum

speeches - 58 survive, 88 are recorded

rhetoric - theoretical and historical works survive

letters - hundreds of surviving letters were published after his death

philosophy - political philosophy, ethics, and theology

External links:

Works of Cicero at the Latin Library (http://www.thelatinlibrary.com): http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cic

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