Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero ( , ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, and writer who tried to uphold principles during the political crises of the Roman Republic that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. The extensive writings of Cicero include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy, and politics. He is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists and the innovator of what became known as "Ciceronian rhetoric". Cicero was educated in Rome and in Greece. He came from a wealthy municipal () family of the Roman

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Exclamation by Cicero, most famously in first Catilinarian oration

secretary and personal assistant to Marcus Tullius Cicero

'''''' (from the Latin , "human") is a Latin noun meaning human nature, civilization, and kindness. It has uses in the Enlightenment, which are discussed below.

latin motto meaning "not for ourselves alone"

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a civil war between the Roman Senate and Mark Antony

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ancient Greek rhetorical tendency in the 3rd century BCE

legal maxim by Cicero

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thumb|Arbuscula by Aubrey Beardsley. Illustration for History of Dancing from the Earliest Ages to the Our Times (1898) Arbuscula (; d. between 54 and 35 BCE) was a woman stage performer of ancient Rome. She was a celebrated actor in pantomimes during the 1st century BCE, when most of the female parts at the time were played by men at least in tragedy.

thumb|Title page from Nizolio's Observationes in Ciceronem (1561 edition) Ciceronianism was the tendency among the Renaissance humanists to imitate the language and style of Cicero (106–43 BC) and hold it up as a model of Latin. The term was coined in the 19th century from the much older term ciceronianus, "a Ciceronian". That term is contrasted with christianus (Christian) in Jerome in the 4th century. Erasmus employs it the same way in the title of his dialogue Ciceronianus (1528). During the Renaissance, however, the term could have both positive and negative connotations, depending on whet

associate of Cicero

second wife of Cicero