Cicero

(106 –43 BC)

1. A Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher 
2. master of Latin prose- wrote many books on Rhetoric 
3. Coined new Latin words- evidentia, humanitas, qualitas, quantitas, and essentia 
4. Gave concept of Rights based on law and custom 
5. Cicero's writings are said to initiate the 14th-century Italian Renaissance
6. He also influenced Enlightenment and its thinkers- John Locke, David Hume, Montesquieu and Edmund Burke
7. "state as 'the people' affairs, who are united by a common agreement about law and rights and by the desire to participate in mutual advantage'"

Work:

1. ‘The Bogomils’, 
2. ‘De Re Publica (On the Commonwealth)’ 
3. ‘De Legibus (On the Laws)’