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Cicero and calls
Plutarch identifies her with spring and Cicero calls her the seed of the fruits of the fields.
The earliest recorded verdict of Lucretius ' work is by Cicero, who calls Lucretius's poetry " full of inspired brilliance, but also of great artistry ".
The magnificence of the ancient city, and the taste of its citizens for the encouragement of art, are attested by Cicero, who calls it in primis Siciliae clarum et ornatum ; and some evidence of it remained, even in the days of that orator, in the statues preserved by the Thermitani, to whom they had been restored by Scipio, after the conquest of Carthage.
Cicero calls it nobilissima civitas and we learn from him that the inhabitants had displayed their zeal and fidelity towards the Romans upon many occasions.
It is probably the same work as the one which Cicero, in another passage, calls On Human Destruction ().
Some, such as Cicero who calls them by a Latin name, Tenebrae, or the Darknesses, name them daughters of Erebus and Nyx.
Cicero who had a high opinion of his work, calls him the miniature Thucydides ( pusillus Thucydides ).
On the whole, Cicero calls him summus artifex, and says he was fitted to act a leading part no less in real life than on the stage.
Cicero calls him " a man of character and principle.
His reading ranges from Arabian philosophers and naturalists to Aristotle, Eusebius, Cicero, Seneca, Julius Caesar ( whom he calls Julius Celsus ), and even the Jew, Peter Alphonso.
The magnificence of the ancient city, and the taste of its citizens for the encouragement of art, are attested by Cicero, who calls it in primis Siciliae clarum et ornatum ; and some evidence of it remained, even in the days of that orator, in the statues preserved by the Thermitani, to whom they had been restored by Scipio, after the conquest of Carthage ; and which were valuable, not only as relics of the past, but from their high merit as works of art.
Cicero calls it a war nulla causa (“ with no justification ”), on the grounds that Parthia had a treaty with Rome.
The argument presented by Cicero calls upon the idea that an event is co-fated with other events.
Thus, Eustathius of Antioch is called the coryphaeus of the First Council of Nicaea ; and Cicero calls Zeno the coryphaeus of the Stoics.
To judge from the insignificant character of the deviations, to which Cicero himself calls attention, as for example, the endeavour to define moral obligation, the completion of the imperfect division into three parts, the rejection of unnecessary discussions, small supplementary additions, in the first two books Cicero has borrowed the scientific contents of his work from Panaetius, without any essential alterations.
Cicero calls Diogenes " a great and important Stoic.

Cicero and Herodotus
At the Milton school, students recited such classical works as those by Herodotus, Cicero, and Tacitus.
Along with Thule, Hyperborea was one of several terrae incognitae to the Greeks and Romans, where Pliny, Pindar and Herodotus, as well as Virgil and Cicero, reported that people lived to the age of one thousand and enjoyed lives of complete happiness.
The most remarkable, contained in his Chronologiae ex nummis antiquis restitutae ( 1696 ) and Prolegomena ad censuram veterum scriptorum, was to the effect that, with the exception of the works of Homer, Herodotus and Cicero, the Natural History of Pliny, the Georgics of Virgil, and the Satires and Epistles of Horace, all the ancient classics of Greece and Rome were spurious, having been manufactured by monks of the 13th century, under the direction of a certain Severus Archontius.

Cicero and father
425 BC ) who later became known as the " father of history " ( Cicero ).
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 ".
The Gaius Maecenas mentioned in Cicero as an influential member of the equestrian order in 91 BC may have been his grandfather, or even his father.
Antony's father was incompetent and corrupt, and according to Cicero, he was only given power because he was incapable of using or abusing it effectively.
" Jefferson described Cicero as " the father of eloquence and philosophy.
Cicero in his De Natura Deorum derives the name of Dis Pater from dives, suggesting a meaning of " father of riches ", directly corresponding to the name Pluto ( from Greek Πλούτων, Ploutōn, meaning " wealthy ").
Robinson was born in Cicero, Illinois, the third of five children of an alcoholic father and a disciplinarian mother.
* Appius Claudius C. f., mentioned by Cicero in a letter to Brutus ; he attached himself to the party of Marcus Antonius, who had restored his father.
Earlier, however, Cicero had brought a civil suit in which he spoke against Cispius, his brother, and their father.
The couple had a son born in 66 BC named Quintus Tullius Cicero after his father.
James M. May demonstrates Cicero ’ s use of father / son imagery that is so prevalent in Cicero ’ s speech as it overlays the court room realities of Roman law, namely the patron / client relationship.
Finally, Cicero completes his destruction of the Caelius / Catiline connection by pronouncing that he, himself had nearly joined with Catiline, as May is quick to point out “ like father, like son !”
Along the way, he is often helped by his father, as well as by Cicero and a young Julius Caesar.
Caecilia Attica is several times mentioned in the letters between her father and Cicero.
Since Cicero was still under the authority of his father, the paterfamilias, he had not yet inherited anything.
On the death of his father on 11 March 1486, his elder brothers Johann Cicero and Friedrich succeeded to Brandenburg and Ansbach respectively, and Siegmund succeeded to Bayreuth.
) was the daughter of Sempronius Tuditanus, according to Cicero, who describes her father as a madman who was accustomed to throwing his money to the people from the Rostra.
During the Mexican-American War, Captain Nelson served with another future mayor, Cicero C. Hammock, as well as the father of mayor John B. Goodwin – Private Williamson H. Goodwin – in the Kennesaw Rangers.
Cicero said that in doing so she had " destroyed the hope of the father, the memory of his name, the supply of his race, the heir of his family, a citizen intended for the use of the republic ".
The most prominent members of the family were Lucius Licinius Murena, who was defended by Cicero in 62 BC against a charge of bribery in the extant speech Pro Murena, and his father of the same name who was defeated by Mithridates in Asia in 81 BC.

Cicero and history
The 1924 town council elections in Cicero became known as one of the most crooked elections in the Chicago area's long history of rigged elections, with voters threatened by thugs at polling stations.
Petrarch revived the work and letters of the ancient Roman Senate | Roman Senator Cicero | Marcus Tullius CiceroPetrarch also published many volumes of his letters, including a few written to his long-dead friends from history such as Cicero and Virgil.
The orator, said Cicero, needed to be knowledgeable about all areas of human life and culture, including law, politics, history, literature, ethics, warfare, medicine, even arithmetic and geometry.
* Brutus ( Cicero ), a history of Roman oratory by Cicero, named after Caesar's assassin.
Shortly after 62 BC, Cicero presents it as one of very few lawful nocturnal festivals allowed to women, privileged to those of aristocratic class, and coeval with Rome's earliest history.
Like Cicero, Quintilian also believes that “ history and philosophy can increase an orator ’ s command of copia and style ;" they differ in that Quintilian “ features the character of the orator, as well as the art ” ( Walzer, 36-7 ).
* Cicero history / genalogy links
The letters of Cicero are one of the most important sources on the history of the late Roman Republic and preserve features of colloquial Latin not always in evidence in his speeches and treatises.
Cicero, reacting to the chronologies of such authors as Berossos ( who composed a Greek-language history of Babylonia, known as the Babyloniaca, during the 3rd century BC ) strongly criticised the claim that the Babylonians had kings going back hundreds of thousands of years:
From the way in which it is mentioned in the wars of Dionysius, Agathocles, and Hieron, it is clear that it was a place of power and importance: but from the time of Hieron it disappears from history, and no mention is found of it in the Verrine orations of Cicero.
It contains a most elaborate history of Rome and its institutions, drawn from Cicero, and thus forms a storehouse of all the historical notices contained in that voluminous author.
One Twitter writer acknowledged the fact that internet media lend themselves to shorter, more fragmented sentences by saying, " translating Cicero and such, I've found that the greatest speakers of history have sentence lengths that make our present day structure seem juvenile.
Cicero also brought the history of the Clodian family into his speech to discredit Clodia by contrasting Clodia ’ s present behavior with the behavior of her “ great Republican lineages .” Cicero also compared her to Livy ’ s Lucretia, in which he gave the jury a discrediting comparison between Clodia and the perfect example of a Roman woman.
According to Cicero Demochares was the author of a history of his own times, written in an oratorical rather than a historical style.
Cicero wrote to Marcus Brutus as follows in his treatise on the history of Roman rhetoric and orators ( Brutus 267 ):
His predecessor Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther was a good and honest administrator, and his successor Cicero one of the best in Roman history.
Boccaccio's efforts brought the works of Tacitus back into public circulation — where they were largely passed over by the Humanists of the 14th and 15th centuries, who preferred the smooth style of Cicero and the patriotic history of Livy, who was by far their favorite historian.
In the history of Rome, the Latin term civitas ( plural civitates ), according to Cicero in the time of the late Roman Republic, was the social body of the cives, or citizens, united by law ( concilium coetusque hominum jure sociati ).
Belleforest wrote on cosmography, morals, literature and history, and he translated the works of Matteo Bandello, Boccaccio, Antonio de Guevara, Francesco Guicciardini, Polydore Vergil, Saint Cyprian, Sebastian Münster, Achilles Tatius, Cicero and Demosthenes into French.

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