Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a famous Roman orator, writer, and political leader. He was a contemporary of Sulla, Pompey, and Julius Caesar. He was born in Arpinum in the year 106 B.C.E. and died in 43 B.C.E. He followed the custom of going to Rome for his formal education, studying rhetoric, philosophy, and law. After Rome he also studied rhetoric and philosophy with the Greeks at Athens and Rhodes. The Romans considered him a great orator, and his writing style had a strong influence on writing in the Western world.

William P. Toth, “Cicero,” in Encyclopedia of World History, ed. Marsha E. Ackermann et al. (New York: Facts On File, 2008), 1:83.