Works
- De Inventione, c. 84 BCE
In Thinking Tools
Known for
The Roman orator and statesman whose early handbook De Inventione set out, in Latin, how a speaker finds arguments, including the circumstances of an act: who did it, what, where, when, why, how, and by what means.
Caveat: The date of De Inventione is not known precisely; it was written when Cicero was a young man, probably in the mid-80s BCE.