Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• Consolation to Marcia §20 Marcus Cicero

  The orator and consul of 63 BC who suppressed Catiline; proscribed and killed in 43 BC. Seneca argues he would have died happier earlier.

• On Benefits §5.17.2 Cicero

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, exiled in 58 BC after suppressing Catiline, his house razed and goods plundered.

• On the Shortness of Life §5.1 Marcus Cicero

  The orator and statesman (106–43 BC), here the type of the public man tossed by politics and unable to enjoy his own retirement.

• On the Firmness of the Wise Man §17.3 Cicero

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), the orator whose wit even Vatinius escaped by turning ridicule on himself first.

• On Anger §2.2 Cicero

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), orator and statesman, exiled by Clodius and later killed at Antony's order.

• On Tranquility of Mind §11.4 Cicero

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (106--43 BC), orator and writer, quoted on the contempt for life that wins a gladiator favor; in XVI he is among the good men murdered (by Antony's agents, 43 BC).

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §2.17.2 Cicero

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), the great Republican orator and philosopher; Seneca credits him with the verb opitulari (to bring aid, to succor), used here for philosophy's help in great matters.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §4.40.11 Cicero

  M. Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), the supreme model of Latin prose eloquence; Seneca cites even him as measured in pace (gradarius), proof that Roman, unlike Greek, speech weighs itself.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §107.10 Cicero

  M. Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), whose practice of translating Greek philosophy and verse into Latin Seneca invokes as his warrant.

• Natural Questions §2.56.1 the shadow of Cicero

  M. Tullius Cicero, whose pre-eminence in Latin prose, Seneca says, eclipsed the reputation Caecina might otherwise have won for eloquence.