Cicero

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Cĭcĕro, ōnis, m., = Κικέρων, a Roman cognomen in the gens Tullia.

I M. Tullius Cicero, the greatest of the Roman orators and writers; born on the 3d of January, 106 B.C. (648 A.U.C.), at Arpinum (hence Arpinae chartae, Mart. 10, 19, 17); assassinated, at the age of sixty-three years, by the soldiers of Antonius, 43 B.C. (711 A.U.C.): ille se profecisse sciat, cui Cicero valde placebit, Quint. 10, 1, 112; Juv. 10, 114 al.— Hence,

B Cĭcĕrōnĭānus , a, um, adj., Ciceronian : simplicitas, Plin. praef. § 22: mensa, id. 13, 16, 30, § 102: aquae, in the villa of Cicero , at Puteoli , medicinal to the eyes , id. 31, 2, 3, § 6.—Subst.: Ciceronianus es, non Christianus, i. e. a follower of Cicero , Hier. Ep. 22, n. 30.—

II Q. Tullius Cicero, the brother of I. , whose work, De petitione consulatūs, is yet extant.

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