Cicero was my kind of guy: a patriot in the best sense, he didn't much care if important people found him an obnoxious blowhard, and if he couldn't get his point through one way he tried another. I think the Rome of his day didn't deserve him, athou…
I know that this attention to Cicero is much needed to increase understanding, I hope, especially in the role his ideas are embedded in our constitution and bill of rights. Some may point to this ownership of slaves but the same kind of ownership by our consitution writers, et al, sort of cancels out any objection. Loran Carrier