" Diogenes Laertius also says that Nicocreon, the tyrant of Cyprus, commanded him to be pounded to death in a mortar, and that he endured this torture with fortitude and Cicero relates the same story.

As Firmicus says that hardly any Roman except ' Caesar ' ( by whom he almost certainly means Germanicus Caesar rather than Julius Caesar ), Cicero and Fronto had treated the subject, it is probable that he did not know the work of Manilius.

The qualities implied in the word Cato were acknowledged by the plainer and less outdated title of Sapiens, by which he was so well known in his old age, that Cicero says, it became his virtual cognomen.

Cicero says it is one of the three main components of prudentia, " the knowledge of things that are good or bad or neither ," along with memoria, " memory ," and intellegentia, " understanding.

:" The verdict of our own Cicero confirms that we Romans either made wiser innovations than theirs by ourselves or improved on what we took from them, but of course, as he himself says elsewhere with reference to his own day: " Italy is invincible in war, Greece in culture.

While there was philosophy prior to Socrates, it was Socrates, says Cicero, who was " the first who brought philosophy down from the heavens, placed it in cities, introduced it into families, and obliged it to examine into life and morals, and good and evil.

Simon Says originated from Latin, the Latin version was " Cicero dicit fac hoc ", meaning " Cicero says do this " ( Cicero was a powerful Roman politician ).

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.

Of Sulpicius as an orator, Cicero says ( Brutus, 55 ): " He was by far the most dignified of all the orators I have heard, and, so to speak, the most tragic ; his voice was loud, but at the same time sweet and clear ; his gestures were full of grace ; his language was rapid and voluble, but not redundant or diffuse ; he tried to imitate Crassus, but lacked his charm.

Cicero says (" De Divinatione ," II. 54 ) that the verse of the sibyl was in acrostics ; and the so-called Oracula Sibyllina contain an acrostic.

Cicero says specifically that people who were free should not engage in lawsuits and quarrels, and slaves should get a break from their labors.

According to Hesiod, Nyx, the primordial goddess of the Night, produced the " tribe of Dreams " () parthenogenetically, though Cicero says that Dreams were the children of Night and Erebus, the embodiment of Darkness.

He was well acquainted with Greek literature, or rather, says Cicero, was almost a Greek.

Cicero says, " There exist certain precepts, even laws, that prohibit a man from being effeminate in pain ," ( Fin.

This lake is called " Pergus " by Ovid and Claudian, but it is remarkable that neither Cicero nor Diodorus speaks of any lake in particular as the scene of the occurrence: the former however says, that around Enna were lacus lucique plurimi, et laetissimi flores omni tempore anni.

The elder Carneades died at the advanced age of 85 ( although Cicero says 90 ), in 129 / 8 BC.

Cicero states that from the earliest period down to the pontificate of Publius Mucius Scaevola ( c. 132 BCE ), it was usual for the pontifex maximus to record on a white tablet ( album ), which was exhibited in an open place at his house, so that the people might read it, first, the name of the consuls and other magistrates, and then the noteworthy events that had occurred during the year ( per singulos dies, as Servius says ).

Cicero says they are the same and that they only appear to be in conflict.

This day must have been September 4, because Cicero says that there were 45 days from the ludi Romani to the Ludi Victoriae Sullanae on October 26, so September 19 in the time the Verrines were composed must have been the last day of the Ludi Romani.

Cicero, says, that his style of speaking was fluent and vehement.

This work, which Cicero says he had read, was taken from a discourse of Carneades, and was intended to exhibit the consolation which philosophy supplies even under the greatest calamities.

Varro, Cicero, and Horace, all men of letters during the subsequent Classical Latin period, considered Livius Andronicus to have been the originator of Latin literature.

Livius ' dates are based mainly on Cicero and Livy.

Cicero goes on to relate the point of view of Accius, that Livius was captured from Tarentum in 209, and produced a play in 197.

Cicero disagrees with this view on the grounds that it would make Livius younger than Plautus and Naevius, though he was supposed to have been the first to produce a play.

she read with me almost all Cicero and great part of Titus Livius: for she drew all her knowledge of Latin from those two authors.

Other major historical figures who appear and play prominent parts in the series include Mithridates VI of Pontus, Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, Publius Rutilius Rufus, Quintus Sertorius, Marcus Livius Drusus, Jugurtha of Numidia, Spartacus, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, Marcus Porcius Cato, Publius Clodius, Titus Annius Milo, Vercingetorix, Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Antonius, Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Caesarion and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.

The daily spoken language of a Sophocles or a Cicero might have exhibited a different or much more regular syntax than their written legacy indicates.

Posidonius's orrery, according to Cicero, exhibited the diurnal motions of the sun, moon, and the five known planets.

At first he considered a career in law, but came to have, in his words, " an insurmountable aversion to everything but the pursuits of Philosophy and general Learning ; and while family fanceyed I was poring over Voet and Vinnius, Cicero and Virgil were the Authors which I was secretly devouring.

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 ".

John Cicero was the eldest son of Elector Albert III Achilles of Brandenburg with his first wife Margaret of Baden.

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

Cicero is the only Roman source that mentions Antony ’ s first wife.

" Thomas Jefferson " first encountered Cicero as a schoolboy learning Latin, and continued to read his letters and discourses as long as he lived.

* 44 BC – Cicero launches the first of his Philippics ( oratorical attacks ) on Mark Antony.

In the first of his Dialogues ( fair models of Cicero ), Severus puts into the mouth of an interlocutor ( Posthumianus ) a pleasing description of the life of coenobites and solitaries in the deserts bordering on Egypt.

* The Roman synod exiles the prophet Jerome, who has incorporated ideas first propounded by the Roman statesman Cicero.

* Terentia, first wife of Marcus Tullius Cicero ( b. 98 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.

* Terentia, first wife of Cicero ( d. AD 4 ).

* Cicero wins his first case.

According to Cicero, the Roman philosopher who was writing in the first century BC, Posidonius constructed a planetary model.

Cicero delivered 4 speeches against the bill, of which 3 are still extant, although the first is mutilated at the beginning.

According to the coherent chronology of Cicero, Cato was born in 234 BC, in the year before the first Consulship of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, and died at the age of 85, in the consulship of Lucius Marcius Censorinus and Manius Manilius.

Plutarch, who had the works of Cato before him, but was careless in dates, did not observe that the estimation of Livy would take back Cato's 17th year to 222, when there was not a Carthaginian in Italy, whereas the computation of Cicero would make the truth of Cato's statement in harmony with the date of Hannibal's first invasion.

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.

Cicero eulogized him as " the first man, in my judgement, of Greece ," and Pausanias records an honorary poem from his tomb:

Cicero defined aequitas as " tripartite ": the first, he said, pertained to the gods above ( ad superos deos ) and is equivalent to pietas, religious obligation ; the second, to the Manes, the underworld spirits or spirits of the dead, and was sanctitas, that which is sacred ; and the third pertaining to human beings ( homines ) was iustitia, " justice ".

In an otherwise seemingly thorough account, Cicero makes no mention of Bona Dea's May festival, and claims the goddess ' cult as an aristocratic privilege from the first ; the impeccably patrician Clodius, Cicero's social superior by birth, is presented as an innately impious, low-class oaf, and his popularist policies as threats to Rome's moral and religious security.

The Ciceronian Age is further divided by the consulship of Cicero in 691 AUC or 63 BC into a first and second half.

" In making the value judgement that classical Latin was " first class " and that it was better to write with Latinitas they were themselves selecting the literary and upper-class language of the city as a standard style and all sermo that differed from it was a different style ; thus in rhetoric Cicero was able to define sublime, intermediate and low styles ( within classical Latin ) and St. Augustine to recommend the low style for sermons ( from sermo ).

The town was first settled by outsiders around 1791 and was previously known as West Cicero, NY.

Stoic theories entered Roman law first through the Roman lawyer and senator Marcus Tullius Cicero and the influence of stoicism and philosophy increased while the status of women improved under the Empire.