Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and renowned orator during the late Roman Republic. Rising from a modest equestrian family, he became consul in 63 BC, famously suppressing the Catiline Conspiracy. Exiled and later recalled, Cicero opposed the rise of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, authoring influential works on rhetoric, philosophy, and ethics like De Oratore, De Officiis, and De Re Publica. His mastery of Latin prose shaped Western literature, and he was assassinated in 43 BC during the proscriptions following Caesar's death.

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