Cicero entire

The complete surviving Cicero — every speech, the philosophical and rhetorical works, and more than eight hundred letters — actually translated from the Latin in a single voice, arranged in the order he wrote them. The Latin faces every passage and a glossary of the whole Roman cast sits alongside.

950 works translated; 12 lost in transmission and kept as stubs. Browse them all →

What makes this different

A few things, taken together, set this edition apart. Click any to expand.

The whole Cicero, not a selection.

Most editions hand you a sampler: the Catilinarians, On Duties, a few letters. This is the entire surviving corpus together — the speeches, the rhetorica, the philosophica, and the full correspondence — so the orator, the philosopher, and the anxious friend writing to Atticus are finally the same man on one shelf.

One translator across speeches, philosophy, and letters.

Cicero is usually parcelled out to different hands, and his recurring vocabulary — officium, res publica, otium, dignitas — comes out differently in each. Here the whole corpus is translated under a single style guide, so a word means the same thing in a Philippic that it means in On Duties.

The Republic's fall, in real time.

The works sit in the order they were written, so the correspondence — the largest diary to survive from the ancient world — runs alongside the speeches and treatises as events happen: Catiline, the exile, Caesar, the assassination, the last stand against Antony. You follow a mind and a Republic in real time, not a filing system.

A scholarly apparatus alongside.

A glossary of every senator, province, lawsuit, and Greek term — Cicero's cast is vast — with cross-references and headnotes that orient without sermonizing, generated from the same structured source files as the text itself. The Latin faces every passage on the web, so any line can be checked against its source.