0216l-MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO born 1/3/106 BC-12/7/43 BC in Arpinium, now Arpino, Italy, orator, writer
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Orator, wrtier, in Arpinum, Roman Empire, was orator, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and philosopher, among the greatest latin orators and writers, he is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists, helped to introduce the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary, distinguishing himself as a linguist, translator, and philosopher, appreciated primarily for his humanism, philosophical, and political writings, introduced the art of refined letter writing to European culture, championed a return to the traditional republican government of Rome, had a tendency to shift his position in response to changes in the political climate, when in Rome do as the Romans do, according to Plutarch, Cicero was an extremely talented student,