Assertion: cicero | /r/CapableOf | write letter
Facets:
value: to appeal for sanctuary
type: PURPOSE
value: in less than a month
type: TEMPORAL
value: to atticus
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to brutus
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: like cicero
type: OTHER
value: to cassius
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in 60 bc
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Clodia had helped loot Cicero's house during his exile after the Catiline events, and in 60 BC, Cicero wrote a letter to Atticus in which he "[indulged] in an extremely lewd witticism at Clodia's expense".
text: He learns of this order beforehand, but chooses to face his death instead of run, sending a letter to Brutus and Cassius informing them of the alliance of Octavian and Mark Antony.
text: Like Cicero, he wrote important collections of letters (and where Cicero wrote poetry, Seneca also wrote plays).
text: Cicero wrote the letter in less than a month during the last year of his life.
text: You are a second brother to me, an 'alter ego' to whom I can tell everything," Cicero wrote in one of his letters to Atticus.
text: While he was at Athens he wrote a letter to Tiro, a slave and later freedman of the Cicero family, in which he said that he was practising declamation in Greek with Gorgias but had to let him go, because his father, whom he did not want to offend, had told him to.
text: Eight years later, he wrote letters to Astrid in Skyrim to appeal for sanctuary, fleeing from Cheydinhal to Skyrim with the Night Mother's coffin.
text: He drifted from place to place, seeking the protection of officials against assassination, writing letters urging his supporters to agitate for his recall, sometimes accusing them of lukewarmness and even treachery, bemoaning the ingratitude of his country or regretting the course of action that had led to his outlawry, and suffering from extreme depression over his separation from his wife and children and the wreck of his political ambitions.
text: He also made many speeches and wrote letters that have been preserved, allowing the modern world to gain knowledge of the politics and culture of Cicero’s era.