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Marcus Cicero

Tullius, the orator (106-43), born at Arpinum, educated at Rome under Archias, the Scaevolas, and the teachers of philosophy (see Introduction), at Athens, in Asia, and at Rhodes; his training was all for service, 1.155.

as consul (63) he crushed the conspiracy of Catiline, 1.84.

banished (58), 2.58.

his enforced retirement from his profession, 3.2–4.

as a philosopher and orator, 1.1–3.

follower of Socrates and Plato, 1.2.

of the New Academy, 2.7–8.

why he wrote on philosophy, 2.2–8; 3.1–5.

attitude on the downfall of the republic, 2.2.

M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.

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    • Cicero, De Officiis, 1.1
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    • Cicero, De Officiis, 1.2
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 1.3
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 1.84
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 2.2
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 2.58
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 2.7
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 2.8
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.1
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.2
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.4
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