Cicero, XV: Philippics (Loeb Classical Library)
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Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106โ43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which 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, 58 survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italia
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Release date: 23 December 1926
ISBN-10 : 0674992083 | ISBN-13: 9780674992085
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Release date: 23 December 1926
ISBN-10 : 0674992083 | ISBN-13: 9780674992085
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