1874 Cicero Select Letters by Albert Watson Antique Roman History Book Clarendon

"Clarendon Press Series"

Cicero Select Letters, With English Introductions, Notes and Appendices

By Albert Watson

Published at The Clarendon Press: Oxford 1874 2nd Edition

"Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC - 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. His extensive writings include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy and politics. He is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists and the innovator of what became known as "Ciceronian rhetoric". Cicero was educated in Rome and in Greece. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and served as consul in 63 BC."