Cĭcĕro — Lewis & Short
Cĭcĕro, ōnis, m., = *kike/rwn,
I a Roman cognomen in the gens Tullia.
I M. Tullius Cicero, the greatest of the Roman orators and writers; born on the 3d of January, 106 B.C. (648 A.U.C.), at Arpinum (hence Arpinae chartae, Mart. 10, 19, 17);
assassinated, at the age of sixty-three years, by the soldiers of Antonius, 43 B.C. (711 A.U.C.): ille se profecisse sciat, cui Cicero valde placebit,Quint. 10, 1, 112; Juv. 10, 114 al.— Hence,
B Cĭcĕrōnĭānus, a, um, adj., Ciceronian:
simplicitas, Plin. praef. § 22: mensa,id. 13, 16, 30, § 102:
aquae,in the villa of Cicero, at Puteoli, medicinal to the eyes, id. 31, 2, 3, § 6.—Subst.:
Ciceronianus es, non Christianus,i. e. a follower of Cicero, Hier. Ep. 22, n. 30.—
II Q. Tullius Cicero, the brother of I., whose work, De petitione consulatūs, is yet extant.