Ciceros

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Ciceros

  1. plural of Cicero
    • 2017 October 2, Carl P.E. Springer, Cicero in Heaven: The Roman Rhetor and Luther’s Reformation, BRILL, →ISBN:
      [] It is difficult to disagree with John O. Ward's conclusion that of "all these Ciceros," it was the "Cicero of the art of speaking" who was the most influential of them all. Above all, Cicero was a man of words—words that were never divorced from things. If there are many "Ciceros" onto whom successive generations have projected their own desires, fears, and literary tastes, there are no doubt just as many "Luthers" and "Reformations."
    • 2018 December 24, John O. Ward, Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Medieval Rhetors and Their Art 400–1300, with Manuscript Survey to 1500 CE, BRILL, →ISBN, page 44:
      There are many Ciceros. [] these Ciceros had different histories in the medieval and Renaissance periods, []