John P.V. Dacre Balsdon
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Fellow of Exeter College, University of Oxford, 1928β69. Author of Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome.
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Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer who vainly tried to uphold republican principles in the final civil wars that destroyed the Roman Republic. His writings include books of rhetoric, orations, philosophical and political treatises, and letters. He is remembered in modernβ¦
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