(This date should be in BCE but COVE reads it as an error) Marcus Tullius Cicero, or Cicero, is a "Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer who vainly tried to uphold republican principles in the final civil wars that destroyed the Roman Republic" (Balsdon, Par 1). Most notably, Cicero refused to join Julius Ceaser's Triumphant because it was "unconstitutional" ( Balsdon, Para 6). Furthermore, Cicero is often cited as "...the greatest Roman orator and the innovator of what became known as Ciceronian rhetoric" (Balsdon, Par 1). In regards to Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Cicero is mentioned throughout the novel as being Nick Greene's highest standard for "fine writing" when he first meets Orlando (Woolf, 103). However, towards the end of the novel, Green's rubric for literature develops, and he cites "Dryden, Pope, [and] Addison" as being the epitome of "fine writing" (Woolf, 278).

Balsdon, John P.V. Dacre and Ferguson, John. "Cicero". Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Feb. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cicero. Accessed 30 May 2021.

 Woolf, Virginia. Orlando: a Biography. Harcourt, Inc, 2020.