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Introduction
The author
Marcus Tullius Cicero was born in 106 BC and was thus an exact
contemporary of Pompey the Great and slightly older than Caesar
the Dictator. Members of the last generation of the Roman Republic,
all three were to die by violence in the decade of the forties, when
the Republic itself was in the death throes of civil war. Pompey had
said in public that, without Cicero's service to his country as consul,
there would have been no Rome to witness his third triumph
(Off. 1.78); Caesar had written of Cicero's service to Latin letters:
'You have won greater laurels than the triumphal wreath, for it is
a greater achievement to have extended the frontiers of the Roman
genius than those of Rome's empire' (Pliny NH vii.117). Yet these
were two of the greatest generals in a state that admired, above all,
military victory and conquest. What feats of statesmanship and
eloquence had made such praise, orflattery,appropriate?