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Marcus Tullius Cicero

106 BC - 43 BC

About the Author

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) was a Roman lawyer and statesman who was active during the late Republic in resisting the rise of dictatorship. His polished style of writing Latin greatly influenced later generations.

In The Library:

• author: Ethical Writings of Cicero: De Officiis (On Moral Duties); De Senectute (On Old Age); De Amicitia (On Friendship), and Scipio’s Dream (1887)
• author: Ethical Writings I (On Moral Duties) (44 BC)
• author: Ethical Writings II (On Old Age) (44 BC)
• author: Ethical Writings III (On Friendship and Scipio’s Dream) (44 BC)
• author: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: with his Treatises on Friendship and Old Age, and Letters of Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (1909)
• author: On the Nature of the Gods (45 BC)
• author: The Orations of Marcus Tullius Ciciero, 4 vols. (1913)
• author: The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, vol. 1 (1916)
• author: The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, vol. 2 (1917)
• author: The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, vol. 3 (1913)
• author: The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, vol. 4 (1913)
• author: The Political Works of Marcus Tullius Cicero, 2 vols. (54 BC)
• author: The Political Works of Marcus Tullius Cicero, vol. 1 (Treatise on the Commonwealth) (54 BC)
• author: The Political Works of Marcus Tullius Cicero, vol. 2 (Treatise on the Laws) (51 BC)
• author: The Works of Sallust (Gordon’s Discourses, Cicero’s Orations against Catiline) (1744)

Quotations:

• Cicero urges the Senate to apply the laws equally in order to protect the reputation of Rome and to provide justice for the victims of a corrupt magistrate (1stC BC) (31 October, 2005)
• Cicero on the need for politicians to place the interests of those they represent ahead of their own private interests (1st century BC) (9 May, 2010)