person
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cicero
also: Marcus Tullius
The great orator and statesman (106–43 BC); thanked, with pointed irony, as 'the best advocate of all' in poem 49.
Reading notes
- The Poems §49 Marcus Tullius
Cicero, the supreme Roman orator; thanked here as 'the best advocate of all' in lines whose irony is much debated.