Cicero, Volume XV: Philippics

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BCE), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic.

In Cicero’s political speeches and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time.

Of about 106 speeches, 58 survive (a few incompletely), 29 of which are addressed to the Roman people or Senate, the rest to jurors.