Pro Marcello

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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80 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1879

About the author

Born 3 January 106 BC, Arpinum, Italy
Died 7 December 43 BC (aged 63), Formia, Italy

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.

Alternate profiles:
Cicéron
Marco Tullio Cicerone
Cicerone

Note: All editions should have Marcus Tullius Cicero as primary author. Editions with another name on the cover should have that name added as secondary author.

Reviews

[Annika Unterberger · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've spent the last semester dissecting Cicero's Pro Marcello speech in my Latin grammar IV course as we had to translate it from a German translation back to the Latin original. So I'm sorry, but Cicero has gotten on my nerves: how Marcellus is the best here and how thankful he is to Caesar there (whom he didn't even like but ingratiated himself to anyway), I can't hear it anymore.

To the speech itself: it's from Cicero so naturally it's great, but I still think that he has written better ones. In Pro Marcello he digresses too much from his main point in my opinion.

—> 2 stars

[Lucy]

‘Rejoice then in this your crowning bliss, and reap the full harvest not only of your good fortune and your glory but above all of your inborn goodness; for therein does the wise man find his highest profit and delight.’