Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises tha ...
(106–43 BC), full name Marcus Tullius Cicero, was a Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, philosopher and one of Rome's greatest orators.
Cicero may also refer to:
Places in the United States
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Cicero, Illinois
Cicero is a town in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago. As of the 2020 census, the population was 85,268, making it the 11th-most populous municipality in Illinois. The town is named after Marcus Tullius Cicero, a R ...
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Cicero Avenue, a north–south street
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Cicero (CTA Blue Line station)
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Cicero (CTA Pink Line station)
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Cicero (CTA Green Line station)
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Cicero station (Metra)
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Cicero, Indiana, a town
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Cicero, Kansas, an unincorporated community
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Cicero, New York
Cicero is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town in northern Onondaga County, New York, Onondaga County, New York (state), New York, United States. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 31,435. The name of the town was assigned by a ...
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Cicero, Ohio, a former town
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Cicero, Wisconsin, a town
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Cicero (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
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Cicero Township, Illinois
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Cicero Township, Indiana
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Cicero Peak (South Dakota), a mountain
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Cicero Creek (Indiana)
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Cicero Creek (Missouri)
Ships
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List of ships named ''Cicero''
* , a Second World War infantry landing ship
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24-class minesweeping sloop
People
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Cicero (given name), a list of people
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Cicero (surname), a list of people
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Quintus Tullius Cicero
Quintus Tullius Cicero ( , ; 102 BC – 43 BC) was a Roman statesman and military leader, as well as the younger brother of Marcus Tullius Cicero. He was born into a family of the equestrian order, as the son of a wealthy landowner in Arpinum, so ...
(died 43 BC), younger brother of Marcus Tullius Cicero who served in government as an author
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Cicero Minor
Marcus Tullius Cicero minor (), or Cicero the Younger, was born in 65 BC. He was the son of the distinguished orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero and his first wife, Terentia. Cicero minor had an elder sister, Tullia, who was born i ...
(65 BC–on or after 28 BC), son of Marcus Tullius Cicero and Roman consul
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John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (1455–1499), posthumously given the cognomen Cicero
* Cicero, code name for
Elyesa Bazna (1904–1970), Albanian secret agent for Germany during World War II
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Jimmy Cicero, ring name of American professional wrestler Matthew Bowman (born 1969)
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David Cicero, a Scottish-American singer and keyboardist
Fictional characters
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Marcus Tullius Cicero (''Rome'' character)
* Paul Cicero, in the film ''
Goodfellas''
* Cicero Pig, in
Porky Pig films
* Cicero, in the film ''
Gladiator
A gladiator ( , ) was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals. Some gladiators were volunteers who risked their ...
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* Cicero, in the comic strip ''
Mutt and Jeff
''Mutt and Jeff'' is a long-running and widely popular American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Bud Fisher in 1907 about "two mismatched wikt:tinhorn, tinhorns". It is commonly regarded as the first daily comic strip. The concept o ...
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* Cicero, in the video game ''
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim''
Other uses
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Cicero (horse) (1902–1923), British Thoroughbred racehorse
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''Cicero'' (magazine), a German political magazine
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Cicero (typography), a unit of measure in typesetting used in France and several other countries
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9446 Cicero, an asteroid
* ''
Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic'', 2015 book by Raphael Woolf
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Cicero Stadium, a sports stadium in Asmara, Eritrea
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Cicero Stadium (Illinois), a sports stadium in Cicero, Illinois, United States
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Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research
The CICERO Center for International Climate Research (abbreviated CICERO; ) is an interdisciplinary research centre for climate research and environmental science/environmental studies in Oslo. CICERO was established by the Government of Norway i ...
, a research centre in Oslo, Norway
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CICERO-6, a low-orbit observation satellite
See also
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Cicerone (disambiguation)
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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency that is responsible for scientific research and its commercial and industrial applications.
CSIRO works with leading organisations arou ...
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