He has been called " List of people known as the father or mother of something # H | The Father of History " ( first conferred by Cicero ) and " The Father of Lies ".

Cicero wrote a treatise called On Friendship ( de Amicitia ), which discusses the notion at some length.

The early Humanists called him the " Christian Cicero " ( Cicero Christianus ).

Notaries public ( also called " notaries ", " notarial officers ", or " public notaries ") hold an office which can trace its origins back to the ancient Roman Republic, before Cicero 106-43 B. C., when they were called scribae (" scribes "), tabellius (" writer "), or notarius (" notary ").

Both in Didot ’ s and Fournier ’ s systems, some point sizes have traditional names such as Cicero ( before introduction of point systems, type sizes were called by names such as Cicero, Pica, Ruby, Long Primer, etc.

On November 8, Cicero called for a meeting of the Senate in the Temple of Jupiter Stator near the forum, which was used for this purpose only when great danger was imminent.

Cicero called it Mutina splendidissima (" most beautiful Mutina ") in his Philippics ( 44 BC ).

The Roman orator Cicero called him " the first man of Greece ", and Montaigne judged him one of the three " worthiest and most excellent men " that had ever lived, but Epaminondas has fallen into relative obscurity in modern times.

According to Cicero, the Manes could be called forth from the caves near Lake Avernus.

Cicero explained that they " dwell inside, from which they are also called penetrales by the poets ".

In his own era, his writings on almost all the principal divisions of philosophy made Posidonius a renowned international figure throughout the Graeco-Roman world and he was widely cited by writers of his era, including Cicero, Livy, Plutarch, Strabo ( who called Posidonius " the most learned of all philosophers of my time "), Cleomedes, Seneca the Younger, Diodorus Siculus ( who used Posidonius as a source for his Bibliotheca historia Library "), and others.

However, Cicero, after reading some works by Antisthenes, called him " a man more intelligent than learned " ().

In ethics we learn from Plutarch and from Cicero that he regarded Virtue as one, by whatever name it be called, and maintained that it is intellectual.

For we learn from Cicero that Tauromenium was one of the three cities in Sicily which enjoyed the privileges of a civitas foederata or allied city, thus retaining a nominal independence, and was not even subject, like Messana, to the obligation of furnishing ships of war when called upon.

The first four volumes contained the text ( new ed., 1845 – 1863 ), the fifth the old Scholiasts, the remaining three ( called Onomasticon Tullianum ) a life of Cicero, a bibliography of previous editions, indexes of geographical and historical names, of laws and legal formulae, of Greek words, and the consular annals.

However, numerous Hillsdale students have, for years, called for considering the likenesses of more classical Western thinkers, such as Socrates, Cicero, Aristotle, Augustine, or Thomas Aquinas among others.

He is usually called Africanus or Scipio Africanus by Cicero

The first was to enact his foreign policy ideals, which — as expressed in a letter to Cicero — called for a policy of " mildness " and " uprightness " for governors of Roman-controlled territories.

It is known from the writings of Cicero that the metal they called orichalcum, while it resembled gold in colour, had a much lower value.

But its planning dates back to the late 1930s when the City of Chicago proposed a high speed subway extension along Wells-Archer-Cicero between the Loop and 63rd Street and Cicero Avenue near Chicago Midway International Airport ( then called Chicago's Municipal Airport ).

The Greek term Antonomasia, in rhetoric, means substituting any epithet or phrase for a proper name, as Pelides, signifying the " son of Peleus ", to identify Achilles ; an opposite substitution of a proper name for some generic term is also sometimes called antonomasia, as a Cicero for an orator.

Most of these data have been recorded by Plutarch, Florus, Cicero, Dio ( Dion ) Cassius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( L. 2 ).

But this arrangement soon gave way before the ambition of one of these tetrarchs, Deiotarus, the contemporary of Cicero and Julius Caesar, who made himself master of the other two tetrarchies and was finally recognized by the Romans as ' king ' of Galatia.

" To support these findings, the assembled judges ( as reported by Coke, who was one of them ) cited as authorities Aristotle, Cicero, and the Apostle Paul ; as well as Bracton, Fortescue, and St. Germain.

In one of these works, De re publica, Cicero linked the Roman concept of res publica to the Greek politeia ".

First Plato and Aristotle, and then Polybius and Cicero, developed the notion that the ideal republic is a mixture of these three forms of government.

Most of these have been recorded by Plutarch ( Lives of Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Camillus ), Florus ( Book I, I ), Cicero ( The Republic VI, 22: Scipio's Dream ), Dio ( Dion ) Cassius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( L. 2 ).

Then, Cicero had the incriminating letters read before the Senate the following day, and shortly thereafter these five conspirators were condemned to death without a trial despite an eloquent protest by Julius Caesar.

Both these very good early references in Cicero ( most ancient Trismegistus material is from early centuries CE ) corroborate the view that Thrice-Great Hermes originated in Hellenistic Egypt through syncretism with Egyptian gods ( the Hermetica refer most often to Thoth and Amun ).

Cicero described the mountain area of inner Sardinia as " a land of barbarians ", with these inhabitants also known by the manifestly pejorative term latrones mastrucati (" thieves with a rough garment in wool ").

However, these three statues were later speculatively ' identified ' by the writer Daniel Defoe ( 1659 – 1731 ) as Caesar ( 100 – 44 BC ) and Pompey ( 106 – 48 BC ) responsible for the decline of the Roman republic facing a statue of Cicero ( 106 – 43 BC ), the defender of the Republic.

Fox contributed to the peaceful resolution of these entanglements, and gained a new admirer in Catherine the Great, who bought a bust of Fox and placed it between Cicero and Demosthenes in her collection.

Ennius personified the " Roman fatherland " as Roma: for Cicero, she was the " Roman state ", but neither of these are dea Roma.

One of these is a letter of condolence to Cicero after the death of his daughter, Tullia.

Many of these aristocrats, such as Cicero, kept his library to himself, only boasting of the enormity of his collection.

In these respects his early career demonstrates a generous and just nature, but also his political traditionalism in contrast to contemporaries such as Cicero and Pompey, the former of whom was always eager to avoid administrative responsibilities of any sort in the provinces, while Pompey rejected every aspect of a normal career, seeking great military commands at every opportunity which suited him, while refusing to undertake normal duties in peaceful provinces.

A film of these events, based on the book Operation Cicero by L. C.

Two of the most famous examples of these self-made " new men " were Gaius Marius, who held the consulship seven times, and Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Brunn provides Frontius ’ De aquaeductu Urbis Romae from AD 100 as an example of the “ various illegal uses to which public water in Rome was being diverted .” Christer Bruun suggests that as a recent find by a contemporary author, Caelius actually gave a speech in 50 BC when he was a curule aedile, ultimately proclaiming “ the worst misappropriation of public water in Rome ” which was due “ all the brothels, were enjoying an illegal supply of running water .” Furthermore, Bruun concludes that although these possible arguments can explain why Cicero attempted to connect Clodia to immorality and water, he simply used this argumentation to suggest Clodia ’ s case against Caelius was unfounded.

Cicero then claimed that Clodia created these charges against Caelius and attacked the reputation of Lucceius who was living in Dio ’ s domus.

Pliny, indeed, notices the Phintienses ( or Phthinthienses as the name is written in some manuscripts ) among the stipendiary towns of Sicily ; and its name is found also in Ptolemy ( who writes it ); but it is strange that both these writers reckon it among the inland towns of Sicily, though its maritime position is clearly attested both by Diodorus and Cicero.

Cicero ’ s jest indicates that he left much of these household responsibilities in the hands of his wife.

Cicero employed various speakers to raise differing opinions in an attempt to make it more difficult for these adversaries to take him to task on what he had written.

When the tribune Publius Servilius Rullus introduced his agrarian law ( 63 ), these lands, which had been originally assigned to the Roman people by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, were expressly exempted from sale, which roused the indignation of Marcus Tullius Cicero ( De lege agraria, i. 4, ii.

Throughout his speech Cicero explicitly seems to follow his own rhetorical guidelines published in his earlier work De Inventione, but on occasion subtly breaks away from these stylistic norms in order to emphasise certain elements of his case and use the circumstances to his advantage.