Marcus Tullius Cicero (pronounced /ˈsɪsɨroʊ/; Classical Latin: [ˈkikeroː]; January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.
He introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary (with neologisms such as humanitas, qualitas, quantitas, and essentia) distinguishing himself as a linguist, translator, and philosopher. An impressive orator and successful lawyer, Cicero thought that his political career was his most important achievement. Today, he is appreciated primarily for his humanism and philosophical and political writings. His voluminous correspondence, much of it addressed to his friend Atticus, has been especially influential, introducing the art of refined letter writing to European culture. Cornelius Nepos, the 1st-century BC biographer of Atticus, remarked that Cicero's letters contained such a wealth of detail "concerning the inclinations of leading men, the faults of the generals, and the revolutions in the government" that their reader had little need for a history of the period. Cicero's speeches and letters remain some of the most important primary sources that survive on the last days of the Roman Republic.
During the chaotic latter half of the first century B.C. marked by civil wars and the dictatorship of Gaius Julius Caesar, Cicero championed a return to the traditional republican government. However, his career as a statesman was marked by inconsistencies and a tendency to shift his position in response to changes in the political climate. His indecision may be attributed to his sensitive and impressionable personality; he was prone to overreaction in the face of political and private change. "Would that he had been able to endure prosperity with greater self-control and adversity with more fortitude!" wrote C. Asinius Pollio, a contemporary Roman statesman and historian. Cicero became an enemy of Mark Antony, attacking him in a series of speeches. He was proscribed an enemy of the state by the Second Triumvirate and subsequently murdered in 43 BC.
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Speeches
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De officiis
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Cato maior de senectute
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Tusculanae disputationes
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Cicero
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De Natura deorum
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Correspondence
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Selected works
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Ad Atticum
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Laelius de amicitia
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De oratore
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De finibus bonorum et malorum
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De republica
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Brutus
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The letters to his friends
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Epistolae ad familiares
41 editions - first published in 1519 Read -
Letters of Cicero: the whole extant correspondence in chronological order
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M.T. Ciceronis Orationes quædam selectæ: cum interp. & notis quas in usum Serenissimi Delphini
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Philippicae: With an introd. and notes
37 editions - first published in 1521 Read -
Scripta quae manserunt omnia
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Pro Milone
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Orationes
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Academica
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De legibus
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Pro Cluentio
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Epistolae
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De divinatione
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De inventione: De optimo genere oratorum ; Topica
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Somnium Scipionis
17 editions - first published in 1780 Read -
Select orations: Literally translated with explanatory notes by C.D. Yonge.
16 editions - first published in 1816 Read -
Cicero's three books of offices, or moral duties
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Cato and Lælius
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The Verrine orations
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Pro Archia
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Pro Murena
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Pro Caelio: De provinciis consularibus ; Pro Balbo
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In Verrem: actio secunda (Second Verrine oration)
12 editions - first published in 1867 Read -
In Catilinam: With introd., notes, exercises, and vocabulary by Charles Haines Keene.
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Cicero in his letters
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Selections from Cicero
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Epistulae: recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Ludovicus Claude Purser.
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The correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero
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Orator
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Discours
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M.T. Cicero's Cato Major, or his Discourse of old-age: with explanatory notes
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Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator or Accomplished Speaker
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Topica
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M.T. Ciceronis Orationes quaedam selectae
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M. Tullii Ciceronis orationes
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Traité du destin
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M. Tullii Ciceronis opera
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Oratio Philippica secunda: With introd. and notes by A.G. Peskett
8 editions - first published in 1646 Read -
De imperio Gnaei Pompei: Oratio ad Quirites, Pro lege Manilia
8 editions - first published in 1800 Read -
Select orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero: with explanatory notes, and a special dictionary.
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M. Tulli Ciceronis Rhetorica
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Ausgewählte reden
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Pro Sestio
7 editions - first published in 1889 Read -
Opera omnia: uno volumine comprehensa. Curis secundis emendatoria et adnotationibus indicibusque auctiora edidit Carolus Fridericus Augustus Nobbe.
7 editions - first published in 1617 Read -
Selected letters of Cicero
7 editions - first published in 1897 Read -
The Academic questions
7 editions - first published in 1853 Read -
Cicero's Offices
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De l'orateur: Texte établi et traduit par Edmond Courbaud.
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Ausgewählte Briefe
6 editions - first published in 1865 Read -
Pro lege Manilia: Pro Caecina ; Pro Cluentio ; Pro Rabirio ; Perduellionis
6 editions - first published in 1874 Read -
Cicero's epistles to Atticus: with notes, historical, explanatory, and critical
6 editions - first published in 1752 Read -
De senectute, De amicitia, De divinatione
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M. T. Ciceronis quae exstant omnia opera: cum deperditorum fragmentis in quator partes divisa, item indices quinque novi et absolutissimi.
6 editions - first published in 1827 Read -
Opera quae supersunt omnia
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M. Tullii Ciceronis libri De divinatione et De fato
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L' amitié
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Oeuvres complètes de Cicéron
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Opera: cum indicibus et variis lectionibus.
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Tusculanarum disputationum libri V
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M. Tullii Ciceronis De oratore libri tres
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Select letters of Cicero: literally translated.
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On Old Age: and On friendship.
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The basic works of Cicero
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Paradoxa stoicorum: Academicorum reliquiae cum Lucullo, Timaeus, De natura deorum, De divinatione, De fato
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Pro M. Caelio oratio
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Murder trials
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De natura deorum. Academica
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On Friendship
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Cicero's three books of offices
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Cicero: select letters: with historical introductions, notes and appendices.
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The orations of Cicero against Catiline
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Epistulae AD Quintum Fratrem
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Catilinarias
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First oration of Cicero against Catiline: with notices, notes and complete vocabulary
5 editions - first published in 1886 Read -
Philippics
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M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera quae supersunt omnia
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M. Tullii Ciceronis De officiis libri tres
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Ciceros ausgewaehlte reden
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Libros de Marco Tvlio Ciceron: en qve tracta Delos Officios, Dela Amicicia, y Dela Senectud.
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[ Marci Tullii Ciceronis opera omnia quae exstant
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Poetica fragmenta: Antonius Traglia recognovit.
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M. Tullii Ciceronis Tusculanarum disputationum ad M. Brutum libri quinque
4 editions - first published in 1850 Read -
Second oration of Cicero against Catiline: with notices, notes and complete vocabulary
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Cicero's select orations
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Offices, essays, and letters
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Pro Roscio: With introd. and notes by St. George Stock.
4 editions - first published in 1884 Read
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