Cicero Selected Works Author:Cicero Cicero (106-43 B.C.) is one of the few men to have been endowed with statesmanship and literary genius. His speeches "Against Verres" and "The Second Philippic" are fired by an incomparable eloquence which he often employed - sometimes at considerable personal danger - to defend the republican institutions of Rome against authoritarian rule. H... more »is letters, with their frank comments on both personal and public affairs, and his essays "On Duties" and "On Old Age" are further examples of a style which has profoundly influenced the development of European prose.« less