Marcus Tullius Cicero, a prolific writer, whose works have survived in large quantity, and who serves as a standard of Latin, and his contemporaries in addition to recognizing the lingua Latina also knew varieties of " speech " under the name sermo.

" In the same place, Cicero mentions a " fourth Mercury ( Hermes ) was the son of the Nile, whose name may not be spoken by the Egyptians.

* Christopher Cicero, a lawyer from Columbus, Ohio, whose warnings about possible NCAA violations by players on the Ohio State Buckeyes football team went unreported by head coach Jim Tressel, leading to his suspension during the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season.

The case was prosecuted by Cicero, whose wife Terentia had hosted the previous year's rites.

In 63 BC, Cicero delivered his famous speech denouncing the companions of the conspirator Catiline at the Forum ( in the Temple of Concord, whose spacious hall was sometimes used as a meeting place by the Senators ).

* Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106 – 43 BC ), orator, philosopher, correspondent, whose works define golden Latin prose and are used in Latin curricula beyond the elementary level

His doctrine is a kind of utilitarianism, with a strong leaning on the speculative side to the modified literary scepticism of Cicero, for whom he had unbounded admiration and on whose style he based his own.

As tribune, he pushed through an ambitious legislative program, including a grain dole, but is chiefly remembered for his feud with Cicero and Milo, whose supporters murdered him in the street.

He also continues to see Schultz's moll, Vera Cicero, whose new nightclub has been financed by the jealous gangster.

On account of his affecting on every occasion the Greek language and philosophy, he was satirized by Lucilius, whose lines upon him are preserved by Cicero ; and Cicero himself speaks of him as a light-minded man.

The crux of the problem is that there is no contemporaneous account of the conflict ; writers such as Polybius, who might have met persons whose grandparents participated in the conflict, do not mention it, while the writers who do speak of the conflict, such as Livy or Cicero, report fact and fable equally readily, and invariably assume that there were no fundamental changes in Roman institutions in nearly 500 years.

Cicero, writing in this era, noted the temple built to honor Tenes, the founder whose name the island received, and of the harsh justice system of the populace.

He happened to be in New York when the news of the fall of Sumter came and, being asked to speak at a public meeting, poured out the deep emotions of his fervid soul in a passionate appeal whose eloquence produced an effect like that of the orations or Demosthenes, Cicero and Burke.

He was successfully defended by Crassus and, more famously, Cicero, whose speech Pro Caelio argued that the prosecutor, Atratinus, was being manipulated by Clodia to get revenge on Caelius for an affair gone wrong.

* Marcus Junius, the previous defender of Publius Quinctius, whose defense was subsequently assumed by Cicero.

Cicero, who entertained a high opinion of Deiotarus, whose acquaintance he had made when governor of Cilicia, undertook his defence, the case being heard in Caesar's own house at Rome.

" This reference transferred into the domain of politics, and in the case of Norcross with his political platform, the Moral Party could similarly be viewed as " American statesmen defend their principles of ' classical republicanism ' with arguments drawn from Aristotle, Publius, and Cicero " added ; those in antiquity whose doctrine framed a moral philosophy.

Milo was encumbered in a coach, with his wife, a heavy riding cloak and a retinue of harmless slaves ( though his retinue also included slaves and gladiators as well as revellers for the festival at Lanuvium, to whose presence Cicero only implicitly refers ).

He rejects the academically respectable Latin authors of the " Golden Age " such as Virgil and Cicero, preferring later " Silver Age " writers such as Petronius and Apuleius as well as works of early Christian literature, whose style was usually dismissed as the " barbarous " product of the Dark Ages.

It takes the form of a dialogue whose interlocutors are Cicero ( speaking mostly in Book II ) and his brother Quintus.

This period began with the first known speech of Cicero and ended with the death of Ovid.

Following a speech by Cicero in the Senate, an amnesty was agreed for the assassins.

The Latin style was heavily influenced by Cicero, and involved a strong emphasis on a broad education in all areas of humanistic study ( in the liberal arts, including philosophy ), as well as on the use of wit and humor, on appeal to the listener's emotions, and on digressions ( often used to explore general themes related to the specific topic of the speech ).

" The earliest known use of the phrase was by Cicero in his speech Pro Milone.

* Cicero, Pro Caelio ( political speech ) Cicero refers to Clodia as hanc Palatinam Medeam, " this Medea of the Palatine "

As it pertains to Catiline, much of the information originates in Cicero ’ s speech In Toga Candida which was given during his election campaign in 64 BC.

Much to his surprise, Catiline was in attendance while Cicero denounced him before the Senate ; however, the senators adjacent to Catiline slowly moved away from him during the course of the speech, the first of Cicero's four Catiline Orations.

The trial ends with the defendant acquitted thanks to the Pro Caelio speech of Marcus Tullius Cicero.

In this speech, Cicero informed the citizens of Rome that Catiline had left the city, not in exile ( as it was rumored ), but to join with his illegal army.

In this speech, Cicero claims that the city should rejoice because it has been saved from a bloody rebellion.

Certainly, Cicero saw political vested interest, as detailed in his second speech.

Any unabridged Latin dictionary informs moderns that Marcus Tullius Cicero and his contemporaries of the late republic while using lingua Latina and sermo Latinus to mean the Latin language as opposed to the Greek or other languages, and sermo vulgaris or sermo vulgi to refer to the vernacular of the uneducated masses, regarded the speech they valued most and in which they wrote as Latinitas, " Latinity ", with the implication of good.

: Origin: < Middle French, French paradoxe ( 1495 as noun ; 1372 – 4 in plural paradoxesas the title of a work by Cicero ; paradoxon ( noun ) philosophical paradox in post-classical Latin also a figure of speech < ancient Greek παράδοξον, especially in plural παράδοξαStoical paradoxes, use as noun of neuter singular of παράδοξος ( adjective ) contrary to received opinion or expectation < παρα-para-prefix1 + δόξαopinion ( see doxology n .), after ancient Greek παρὰ δόξανcontrary to expectation.

In 52 BC he was prosecuted for the murder of Publius Clodius Pulcher, and was unsuccessfully defended by his friend Marcus Tullius Cicero in the speech Pro Milone.

Called on to give a speech ( three hours were allocated ) Cicero broke down.

It is not clear how much of a speech he was able to give but the extant Pro Milone is an expanded form of the defence as Cicero would have liked to have given it.

Cassius Dio states that when Cicero had finished writing up his speech, he sent a copy to Milo in exile.

Caelius ' defence advocate was Cicero, who took a harsh approach against her, recorded in his speech Pro Caelio.

* Gaius Rabirius Postumus, defended by Cicero in the extant speech Pro Rabirio Postumo in 54 BC ; nephew of the preceding.

However, in August, Cicero opened the case and vowed to short-circuit the plans by taking advantage of an opportunity to change the format of the trial to bring evidence and witnesses up much sooner, and opened his case with a short and blistering speech.

Piso's recall was perhaps in consequence of the violent attack made upon him by Cicero in the Senate in his speech De provinciis consularibus.

In 76 BC he was sued by C. Fannius Chaerea for 50, 000 sesterces, and was defended by Cicero in a famous speech.