CICERO

(106–43 bc), roman statesman, orator, and writer; full name marcus tullius cicero. as an orator and writer cicero established a model for latin prose; his surviving works include speeches, treatises on rhetoric, philosophical works, and letters. a supporter of pompey against julius caesar, in the philippics (43 bc) he attacked mark antony, who had him put to death.

a town in north-eastern illinois, just west of chicago; population 80,414 (est. 2008).