Cicero

Also known as: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Dates: 106–43 BC
Role: Roman orator, statesman, philosopher

Roman orator, statesman, and philosopher. Lacordaire imagines himself at the base of the Tarpeian Rock listening to Cicero.

Works

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — Lacordaire imagines himself at the base of the Tarpeian Rock listening to Cicero "who speaks to me and moves me"
"I listen in silence at the base of the Tarpeian Rock to Cicero who speaks to me and moves me"

Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture

Chapter I: On the Excellence, Necessity, and Fruit of Sacred Scripture — His praises for Philosophy (Ethics) quoted: "the light of life, the teacher of morals, the medicine of the soul"
"those praises of Cicero for Philosophy, or Ethics, most aptly apply"
Sacred Writers as Pens of the Holy Spirit — As the orator must turn over all of Cicero, so the theologian must turn over Scripture
"the orator Cicero"

Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)

He Created — Cited for the pagan meaning of "to create" as "to beget"
"'To create' in Cicero and among the pagans means 'to beget'"
He Created — Named among philosophers affirming the world was made by God; Aristotle's argument reported in Cicero's Book II of On the Nature of the Gods
"So Plato, the Stoics, Cicero, Plutarch, and Aristotle, whose argument on this subject is reported by Cicero in book II of On the Nature of the Gods."