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  1. a linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em
  2. a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC)
  3. Marcus Tullius Cicero (Classical Latin: ; January 3, 106 BC - December 7, 43 BC), known in older English sources as Tully, was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. ...
  4. Cicero is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Pink Line. The station was the site of an accident in 1979 in which a train derailed and hit the station, stopping just short of the ticket agent's booth.
  5. Cicero is an incorporated town in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 85,616 at the 2000 census. Cicero is named for the town of Cicero, New York, which in turn was named for Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Roman statesman and orator.
  6. A cicero is a unit of measure used in typography in France and other continental European countries, invented by François Ambroise Didot around 1780.
  7. The Roman statesman and orator Mārcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
  8. "Rhetoric is one great art comprised of five lesser arts: inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria, and pronunciatio."  Rhetoric is "speech designed to persuade."
  9. A unit of measurement used to measure typefaces. It is equal to 12 Didot points, the slightly larger continental European counterpart to the American and British point.
  10. Centre for International Climate and Energy Research, Oslo
  11. A European typographic unit of measurement; approximately 4.55 millimeters, though it varies from country to country.
  12. by Rev. W. Lucas Collins (Ancient Classics for English Readers)
  13. "If a pregnant woman greatly desires a chickpea, she will deliver a child bearing the image of a chickpea. That is how Ciciero's family got its name" (De naturalium effcetum admiradorum causis [Basel, 1556].
  14. A European unit of type measurement. Apparently named after an ancient Roman lawyer. 1 Cicero equals 4.51 millimeters.
  15. Conservative Roman senator; Stoic philosopher; one of great orators of his day; killed in reaction to assassination of Julius Caesar. (p. 156)
  16. A unit of measurement common in Europe, used in the Didot system, that is similar to a point. It is equivalent to 44.5 millimeters.
  17. “...the subjects of other arts are derived as a rule from hidden and remote sources, while the whole art of oratory lies open to the view and is concerned in some measure with the common practice, custom, and speech of mankind, so that, whereas in all other arts that is most excellent which is ...
  18. A typographic unit of measurement used predominantly in Europe. It consists of 12 Didot points, each measuring.01483 inch. Thus, a cicero is .1776 or 4.511 mm.
  19. Latin name of Etruscan origin [lrp 57]