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Pronunciation: [sa͡ɪsɹˈə͡ʊni͡ən] (IPA)

Ciceronian is a term used to describe anything related to Cicero, the renowned Roman philosopher, and statesman. Synonyms for Ciceronian include eloquent, articulate, oratorical, and rhetorical. These words all denote the ability to speak or write persuasively and clearly, as Cicero himself was known to do. Other alternatives to Ciceronian could include classical, erudite, learned, or cultured. All these words indicate a deep understanding of ancient history, literature, and philosophy, characteristics that Cicero himself embodied. Using these synonyms allows one to describe a person, speech, or piece of writing as similar to Cicero's work and contributions to the field of rhetoric and public speaking.
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But, on the other hand, the popularity enjoyed by the old comedy between the time of Naevius and of Terence, and even down to the earlier half of the Ciceronian age, when some of the great parts in Plautus continued to be performed by the 'accomplished Roscius,' and the admiration expressed for its authors by grammarians and critics, from Aelius Stilo down to Varro and Cicero, show its adaptation to an earlier and not less vigorous, if less refined stage of intellectual development; while the actual survival of many Roman comedies can only be accounted for by a more real adaptation to human nature, both in style and substance, than was attained by Roman tragedy in its straining after a higher ideal of sentiment and expression.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
In answer to a taunt of Regulus, he once boldly avowed his preference for the Ciceronian oratory to that of his own day.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
A powerful exhibition of Ciceronian eloquence and legal acumen at the trial of an important land case between the Proprietaries and Samuel Wallace gained for him an early professional celebrity.
"Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution"
L. Carroll Judson

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  • The Mandarin style at its best yields the richest and most complete expression of the English language.Its cardinal assumption is that neither the writer nor the reader is in a hurry, that both are possessed of a classical education and a private income. It is Ciceronian English.
    Cyril Connolly
  • It is a dreadful picture—this picture of Italy under the rule of the oligarchy. There was nothing to bridge over or soften the fatal contrast between the world of the beggars and the world of the rich. The more clearly and painfully this contrast was felt on both sides—the giddier the height to which riches rose, the deeper the abyss of poverty yawned—the more frequently, amidst that changeful world of speculation and playing at hazard, were individuals tossed from the bottom to the top and again from the top to the bottom. The wider the chasm by which the two worlds were externally divided, the more completely they coincided in the like annihilation of family life—which is yet the germ and core of all nationality—in the like laziness and luxury, the like unsubstantial economy, the like unmanly dependence, the like corruption differing only in its tariff, the like criminal demoralization, the like longing to begin the war with property. Riches and misery in close league drove the Italians out of Italy, and filled the peninsula partly with swarms of slaves, partly with awful silence. It is a terrible picture, but not one peculiar to Italy; wherever the government of capitalists in a slave-state has fully developed itself, it has desolated God's fair world in the same way as rivers glisten in different colours, but a common sewer everywhere looks like itself, so the Italy of the Ciceronian epoch resembles substantially the Hellas of Polybius and still more decidedly the Carthage of Hannibal's time, where in exactly similar fashion the all-powerful rule of capital ruined the middle class, raised trade and estate-farming to the highest prosperity, and ultimately led to a— hypocritically whitewashed—moral and political corruption of the nation. All the arrant sins that capital has been guilty of against nation and civilization in the modern world, remain as far inferior to the abominations of the ancient capitalist-states as the free man, be he ever so poor, remains superior to the slave; and not until the dragon-seed of North America ripens, will the world have again similar fruits to reap.
    Theodor Mommsen

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