Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman scholar, writer and statesman of the 1st century BC. Artist: Unknown

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Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman scholar, writer and statesman of the 1st century BC. Cicero (106-43 BC) is remembered as the greatest of Roman orators. He upheld the Republican principles of Rome during the civil wars which brought Julius Caesar to power. After Caesar's murder he delivered a famous series of fourteen orations against Mark Anthony, and after the triumvirate of Mark Anthony, Octavian and Marcus Lepidus was formed, Cicero was executed. He was a prolific writer, producing poems, books and treatises on politics, philosophy and rhetoric, and a book on public speaking, De Oratore.

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