Cicero -Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman orator and statesman from Arpinum, in Italy. He entered the Senate in 74 B.C. and became consul in 64, beating an aristocrat, Lucius Sergius Catilina. This same Catilina was later implicated in a plot to overthrow the government, which is known as the conspiracy of Catiline or the Catilinian Cnspiracy. Cicero suppressed it and had members of it executed. In the tumult over this extra-legal move, Cicero was forced into exile.

In 50 B.C. he returned to Rome and joined Caesar's rival, Pompey. When Caesar defeated Pompey in 48, Cicero accepted Caesar's friendship. After Caesar died, Cicero supported his successor Octavian (Augustus), but was still proscribed and murdered on December 7, 43 B.C.

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Cicero E-Texts
Quotations
Conspiracy of Catiline
Philodemus
Stoics and Moral Philosophy

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