| AdminHistory | Marcus Tullius Cicero (also known in England as Tully): born into a wealthy family at Arpinum, Latium (now Arpino, Italy), 106 BC; educated in Rome and Greece; did military service under Pompeius Strabo (the father of Pompey), 89 BC; made his first appearance in the courts, 81 BC; soon established a reputation at the bar; began his public career as quaestor in western Sicily, 75 BC; a renowned statesman, orator and scholar who tried unsuccessfully to uphold republican principles in the civil wars that destroyed the Roman republic; his writings included rhetoric, orations, philosophical and political treatises, and letters; died at Formiae, Latium (now Formia), 43 BC. |
| CustodialHistory | Part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. |