Книга: Cicero Marcus Tullius «Letters to Atticus, with an English translation by E. O. Winstedt»

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• CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS° — (106 B.C.E.–3 B.C.E.), Roman orator and statesman. In 59 B.C.E. Cicero delivered a speech in Rome on behalf of his client Flaccus (Pro Flacco), who was accused of having seized gold contributed by the Jews to the Temple, while he was proconsul of …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Cicero,Marcus Tullius — Cicero, Marcus Tullius. 106 43B.C. Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher. A major figure in the last years of the Republic, he is best known for his orations against Catiline and for his mastery of Latin prose. His later writings introduced… …   Universalium

• Cicero, Marcus Tullius — born 106 BC, Arpinum, Latium died Dec. 7, 43 BC, Formiae Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer. Born to a wealthy family, he quickly established a brilliant career in law and plunged into politics, then rife with factionalism and… …   Universalium

• Cicero, Marcus Tullius — (106–43 BC) The Roman orator and statesman is philosophically important partly as a transmitter of Greek ideas in Latin, but also for the unity of philosophy and rhetoric that he sought to promote. Rhetoric enables the statesman, educated to… …   Philosophy dictionary

• CICERO, Marcus Tullius — (106 BC–43 AD)    One of this famous orator’s works, De Divinatione, gives some idea of the tradition of augury that draws on Etruscan tradition …   Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans

• CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS —    a Roman orator, statesman, and man of letters, born near Arpinum, in Latium; trained for political life partly at Rome and partly at Athens; distinguished himself as the first orator at the Roman bar when he was 30, and afterwards rose through …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia