Marcus Tullius Cicero (standard English pronunciation [ˈsɪsərəʊ]; Classical Latin pronunciation [ˈkikero]) (January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) was an orator and statesman of Ancient Rome, and is generally considered the greatest Latin orator and prose stylist. Cicero - Biography. Cicero was born in Arpinum and killed at Formia while fleeing from political enemies. "It is no exaggeration", ...

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Roman Republic - The legendary founding of Rome — 753 BC. The origins and early history of Rome are very uncertain. While there are quite specific accounts of Rome's orgins and early history, these tend to be of a more mythological nature, and do not stand up as objective history when subject to modern analysis. However, Roman origin myths probably do contain aspects of the truth, a ...

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Cicero was born in Arpinum and killed at Formia while fleeing from political enemies. "It is no exaggeration", wrote Taylor (as cited in "References"), "to say that the most brilliant era of Roman public life was ushered in by Cicero and closed by his death—he stood at its cradle and he followed its hearse." His family, the Tullii, were one of the landed gentry in Arpinum and resented the fame and fortunes of the other great Arpinate families, the Marii. Throughout his life, the conservative Cicero loathed being compared to the then more f ...

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Roman Republic - Early Republic. Lucretia Lucius Junius Brutus Cincinnatus Appius Claudius the Censor Samnite wars Punic wars, Carthage, Hannibal and Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major Scipio Aemilianus Cato the Censor Macedonian wars Roman Republic - Late Republic. Ahenobarbus family Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus Gaius Marius and Luciu ...

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The first and most important institution of the Roman Republic was the Roman Senate. Inside the Senate there were two unofficial parties: the optimates and the populares. The Senate had major influence and prestige being composed by aristocratic and rich patricians and plebians. The great majority of the senators were former republican officials. The Romans observed two principles for their officials: annuality, or the observation of a one-year term, and collegiality, or the holding of the same office by at least two men ...

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Cicero - Speeches. Of his speeches, eighty-eight were recorded, but only fifty-eight survive. (Some of the items below are more than one speech.) (81 BC) Pro Quinctio (On behalf of Publius Quinctius) (80 BC) Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino (On behalf of Sextus Roscius of Ameria) (77 BC) Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo (On behalf of Quintus Roscius the Actor) (70 BC) Divinatio in Caecilium (Spoken against Caecilius at the inquiry con ...

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