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Oct 19, 2023 · Roman. adjective. having to do with the civilization of ancient Rome, including the kingdom, republic, and empire. Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman lawyer, writer, and orator. He is famous for his orations on politics and society, as well as serving as a high-ranking consul.
Dec 1, 2019 · Cicero (January 3, 106 BCE–December 7, 42 BCE) was a Roman statesman, writer, and orator renowned among the great speakers and prose writers at the end of the Roman republic. His hundreds of surviving letters discovered over 1,400 years after his death made him one of the best-known individuals in ancient history. Fast Facts: Cicero.
Cicero called himself an Academic, but this applied chiefly to his theory of knowledge, in which he preferred to be guided by probability rather than to allege certainty; in this way, he justified contradictions in his own works ( see also epistemology: Ancient Skepticism ).
