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Marcus Tullius Cicerō

The first of his family to reach the consulship, Cicero won some fame as a statesman by suppressing the conspiracy of Catiline; but his chief and lasting distinction was along literary lines. In oratory he was hardly rivaled in his own generation; and his writings are a priceless possession.