Tully
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Cicero · Marcus Tullius Cicero
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman orator and philosopher cited both as an authority on fidelity and justice and as the source of an illustrative legal case.
Cicero, in his first book on the talents and character of an orator, puts the case of a father, who, under the supposition or intelligence that his son was dead, promised to devise his property to his nephew.
In support of his opinion, he appeals also to the testimony of Tully, who has said, that those promises are not to be kept, which are prejudicial to the person to whom they are made, nor, if they are more detrimental to the giver than beneficial to the receiver.
Tully, in the first book of his Offices, assigns such force to the obligation of promises, that he calls fidelity the foundation of justice, which Horace also styles the sister of justice, and the Platonists often call justice, truth, which Apuleius has translated fidelity, and Simonides has defined justice to be not only returning what one has received, but also speaking the truth.
Apologeticum
Roman orator (Cicero) noted for eloquence.
Who is loftier than Pompey, more fortunate than Sulla, richer than Crassus, more eloquent than Tully?