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On The Nature Of The Gods

Cicero (Marcus Tullius 10643 BCE) Roman lawyer orator politician and philosopher of whom we know more than of any other Roman lived through the stirring era which saw the rise dictatorship and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time Of about 106 speeches delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political before jurors if judicial 58 survive (a few of them incompletely) In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him These afford a revelation of the man
all the more striking because most were not written for publication Six rhetorical works survive and another in fragments Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions and a number of others; and some lost There is also poetry some original some as translations from the Greek The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes
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Cicero (Marcus Tullius 10643 BCE) Roman lawyer orator politician & philosopher of whom we know more than of any other Roman lived through the stirring era which saw the rise dictatorship & death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic In his political speeches especially & in his correspondence we see the excitement tension & intrigue of politics & the part he played in the turmoil of the time Of about 106 speeches delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political before jurors if judicial 58 survive (a few of them incompletely) In the fourteenth century Petrarch & other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero & nearly 100 by others to him These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication Six rhetorical works survive & another in fragments Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions & a number of others; & some lost There is also poetry some original some as translations from the Greek The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes

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Italian - A word used ot descibe something from Italy
Tension - A force that is stretching an object
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