CLEP Western Civ I

Answer: C - Cicero, the first century BCE Roman orator and statesman, did not say, “Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears...” That was a line of dialogue spoken by the partially fictionalized Marc Antony in William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, in which a partially fictionalized Cicero also appeared. In De Re Publica Cicero wrote, “True law is right reason in agreement with nature.” In Epistolarum ad Atticum, he wrote, “While there’s life, there’s hope.” In De Legibus he wrote, “To each his own” and “Let the punishment match the offense.”