In Defence of the RepublicA new collection of some of Cicero's greatest and most stirring speeches, translated by Siobhan McElduff Cicero (106 43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Octavian, admitted to his grandson that Cicero was 'an eloquent man, my boy, eloquent and a lover of his country'. This new selection of speeches illustrates Cicero's fierce loyalty to the Roman Republic, giving an