person
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cicero
also: M. Tullius, Marcus Tullius
The supreme orator of the late Republic (106–43 BC), the standard against which the dialogue measures decline; killed in the proscriptions of 43 BC.
Reading notes
- The Annals §4.34 Cicero's book in which he raised Cato to the heavens
Cicero's lost panegyric Cato, answered by Julius Caesar's polemical Anticato—a precedent for tolerating hostile writing.
- A Dialogue on Oratory §12 Cicero
Rome's supreme orator (106–43 BC), the benchmark of the whole debate.