person
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cicero
Rome's supreme orator and prose stylist (106-43 BC); Pliny's avowed rival and standard of eloquence.
Reading notes
- The Letters §1.2.4 our Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), 'our Marcus'; Pliny's standard of eloquence, here for ornate flourishes worth occasional imitation.
- The Letters §3.15.1 Marcus Tullius
Marcus Tullius Cicero, the orator, cited as a patron of poets' talents.
- The Letters §7.4.3 Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero, the supreme orator of the late Republic, here recalled for a playful epigram on his freedman Tiro.