In Catilinam 1-4. Pro Murena. Pro Sulla. Pro Flacco: (Loeb Classical Library)
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The statesman at the height of his powers.
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political, before jurors if judicial, fifty-eight survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication. Six rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions and a number of others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as translations from the Greek.
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About the Author
Coll Macdonald (1924-1983) was Headmaster of Portsmouth Grammar School and Uppingham School, UK.
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- Contributor: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Imprint: Harvard University Press
- ISBN13: 9780674993587
- Number of Pages: 640
- Packaged Dimensions: 108x162mm
- Packaged Weight: 390
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Release Date: 1976-01-31
- Series: Loeb Classical Library
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Coll Macdonald (1924-1983) was Headmaster of Portsmouth Grammar School and Uppingham School, UK.
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