Plutarch’s Life of Cicero, Appian, Dion Cassius, Villeius Paterculus, are the original authorities,—next to the writings of Cicero himself, especially his Letters and Orations. Middleton’s Life is full, but one-sided. Forsyth takes the opposite side in his Life. The last work in English is that of Anthony Trollope. In Smith’s Biographical Dictionary is an able article. Dr. Vaughan has written an interesting lecture. Merivale has elaborately treated this great man in his valuable History of the Romans. Colley Cibber’s Character and Conduct of Cicero, Drumann’s Roman History, Rollin’s Ancient History, Biographie Universelle. Mr. Froude alludes to Cicero in his Life of Cæsar, taking nearly the same view as Forsyth.
