cicero

plural ciceros

1. Continental printingmediaThe Continental equivalent of the English pica: a measure of 12 Didot points (4.51368 mm or about 0.178 in.) or a body of type in this size.

plural Ciceros · plural Ciceroes · plural Cicerones

1. uncountableusuallyThe Roman statesman and orator Mārcus Tullius Cicerō (106–43 BC).

   But I perceiue nowe that all red colloured stones are not Rubies, nether is euery one Alexander that hath a stare in his cheke, al lame men are not Vulcans, nor hooke nosed men Ciceroes, nether each professor a poet.

   1579, Thomas Lodge, A Defence of Poetry, Music, and Stage-Plays, […], London: […] Shakespeare Society, published 1853, →OCLC, page 15

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   “[…] Still, I wish I knew something of this Sir Cicero; for, to be frank with thee, I have even foregone my siesta in searching the books in quest of such a man.” “And do they not confirm every syllable the Signor Smees has said?” “So far from it that I do not even find the name. It is true, several distinguished orators of that nation are styled English Ciceroes; but then all people do this by way of commendation.”

   1842, J[ames] Fenimore Cooper, chapter VII, in The Jack O’Lantern; (Le Feu-Follet;) or, The Privateer. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 207

   He is described as having spoken for nearly an hour with great confidence in a highly declamatory tone, and with studied action, impressing all present who had ever heard of Cicero or Hortensius with the belief that he had worked himself up into the notion of being one or both of them for the occasion.

   1880, Henry James Nicoll, “Miscellaneous”, in Great Scholars. Buchanan, Bentley, Porson, Parr and Others., Edinburgh: Macniven & Wallace, page 204

   […] [Guido] Baccelli once more in elegant and fluent Latin delivered a grand eulogy on Prof. [Rudolf] Virchow, who then likewise replied in fluent Latin. An embrace and a kiss of the two Cicerones concluded the tenth Congress, which as far as the number of visitors goes surpasses all the previous records; […]

   1890 August 16, “The Tenth International Medical Congress”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama, number 3277, London: […] John C. Francis, […], page 230, column 3

   Synonyms: Tully

2. uncountableusuallyA surname.

   Leatrice [Cole] is also descended from the Cicero family. […] The Ciceroes owned the Grapeco Bottling Company.

   1995 December 31, Margaret Lindberg, “Family resolves to ring in each new year with party”, in The Huntsville Times, final edition, volume 86, number 282, Huntsville, Ala., →ISSN, →OCLC, page F2, column 2

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   Our two Cicerones [son Marcus Tullius Cicero Minor and nephew Quintus Tullius Cicero Minor] are with Dejotarus, but if there ſhould be Occaſion, they can be conveyed to Rhodes. […] ON the 2d of February my Wife and Daughter came to Formiæ, and inform’d me of al your very obliging Behaviour, and good Offices in their Behalf. I am willing they ſhould continue at Formiæ, together with the two young Cicerones, until we know whether we are to embrace a ſcandalous Peace or a deſtructive War.

   1752, Cicero, translated by William Guthrie, Cicero’s Epistles to Atticus. With Notes Historical, Explanatory, and Critical. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Waller, […], pages 274 (book V, epistle XVIII) and 406 (book VII, epistle XVIII)

   He [Marcus Pomponius Dionysius] was tutor to the two young Cicerones [son and nephew of Cicero]. […] The two young Cicerones accompanied their parents, and were placed under the charge of Deiotarus.

   1867, E[dward] St. John Parry, Ciceronis Epistolarum Delectus: A Selection from Cicero’s Letters Illustrating the Contemporary History of Rome. With Notes and Introductions., London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 271

   All in all, he [Titus Pomponius Atticus] reflected, the two Cicerones [Cicero and brother Quintus Tullius Cicero] had not had happy marriages; they had been obliged to marry for money, to heiresses. […] The pity of it was that both women loved their Cicerones; they just didn’t know how to show it, and were, besides, frugal women who deplored the Ciceronian tendency to spend money.

   2002, Colleen McCullough, “The Cracks Appear: From Intercalaris of 46 b.c. until September of 45 b.c.”, in The October Horse (Masters of Rome; 6), London: Century, →ISBN, section 3, pages 384–385

3. Numerous places in the United States:
   1. uncountableusuallyA town in Cook County, Illinois; formerly, Hawthorne.
   2. uncountableusuallyA town in Hamilton County, Indiana.
   3. uncountableusuallyAn unincorporated community in Sumner County, Kansas.
   4. uncountableusuallyA town in Onondaga County, New York.
   5. uncountableusuallyAn extinct town in Defiance County, Ohio.
   6. uncountableusuallyA town and unincorporated community in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.