Marcus Tullius Cicero
historical figure · 10 works · 14 mentions · 46 anchored passages
Cicero · I · Marcus Cicero · me · the narrator · He · Marcus Tullius · Tully · as consul · our Cicero
in the texts
On Moral Ends
The narrator and author of the dialogue, who questions Cato about Stoic ethics and reflects on the difficulty of rendering Greek philosophy in Latin.
'You do well,' said he, 'in helping me;
' 'These things are said magnificently, Cato,' said I;
Then those first words which we are wont to use at meeting:
Academica
Roman statesman and orator, narrator of the dialogue, proponent of the New Academy's skepticism, author of the work.
"These things are so, Varro.
But about you yourself—what is this that I hear?
Here at first only a few words passed, while we asked whether there was perhaps any news from Rome.
Lucullus
The author and narrator of the dialogue, a former consul and orator, addressee of Lucullus's speech.
for I, as consul, all but conducted that most illustrious man's chariot into the city.
and we, whom the Roman people has placed in this rank, need see to nothing else save that we detract nothing from our public service by our private studies.
We had come the earlier, indeed, because it had been arranged that, if there were a wind, Lucullus should sail to his estate near Neapolis and I to mine near Pompeii.
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman orator, statesman, and philosopher (106-43 BC), regarded as the greatest master of Latin prose and a major political figure of the late Roman Republic.
Clodius, an enemy of Cicero’s, proposed a law banishing “any one who had put Roman citizens to death without trial.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, the greatest of Roman orators and the chief master of Latin prose style, was born at Arpinum, Jan.
As a philosopher, Cicero’s most important function was to make his countrymen familiar with the main schools of Greek thought.
On Fate
Roman statesman and philosopher, author of the dialogue On Fate, quoted and reported by later authors on questions of fate, necessity, and anecdote.
‘And he rolls round the changes’—the definition of fate according to Tully, who says:
Those verses of Homer also lend support to this opinion, which Cicero rendered into Latin:
And, that a poet may not be too cheap a witness, take Cicero as your authority for the honor in which this fish was held in the eyes of Publius Scipio Africanus, the famous conqueror of Numantia.
On the Nature of the Gods
The author and narrator of the dialogue, a Roman statesman and Academic philosopher who frames and later joins the conversation at Cotta's house.
"By all means," said Cotta.
Those who ask what I myself think on each subject are more inquisitive than they need be;
Nor yet is it possible that those who philosophise by this method should have nothing to follow.
Stoic Paradoxes
The author of the work, a Roman orator and statesman who composes the Paradoxes for Brutus and defends his own record.
why was Spartacus an enemy, if you are a citizen?
But since you neither did this nor could do it, your wrong gave me a glorious return, not a calamitous departure.
whereas I have, by way of amusement, cast into the form of commonplaces those very propositions which the Stoics scarcely uphold even in their lecture-halls and at their leisure.
Consolation to Marcia
The Roman orator and statesman Marcus Cicero, cited as an example of someone who would have died happier had he died earlier, before witnessing the proscriptions.
Marcus Cicero, if at that time, when he escaped the daggers of Catiline—by which he was attacked together with his country—he had fallen;
On the Shortness of Life
Roman statesman and orator whose turbulent political career and self-description as 'half a free man' are recounted as an example of preoccupation.
Cicero called himself half a free man.
Marcus Cicero, tossed about among the likes of Catiline and Clodius, among the Pompeys and the Crassuses—some open enemies, some doubtful friends—while he is buffeted along with the state and holds it back as it founders, only to be swept away at last, neither at rest in prosperity nor able to endure adversity—how often does he curse that very consulship of his, praised by himself not without cause, but without end!
De Pallio
Roman orator cited as an example of extravagant spending on luxury furniture.
I drive the cautery into the ambition by which Marcus Tullius bought an orb of citron-wood for five hundred thousand sesterces, by which Asinius Gallus pays twice as much for a table of the same Mauritanian wood.