Cicero's collected works. 17th-century frontispiece to a 1661 edition of Cicero's collected works ('opera omnia'),showing its author (centre). The Roman statesman,orator and writer Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) is best known for his philosophical writings,though his essays are a source of information on the end of the Roman Republic and Julius Caesar's rise to power. Cicero witnessed the murder of Caesar and,in the power struggles that followed,he himself was murdered. The Latin text at top names Cicero,describes the content,and names the editor,the Dutch philologist Cornelis Schrevel (1608-1664) | |
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