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Cicero's Brutus is a history of Roman oratory. It is written in the form of a dialogue, in which Brutus and Atticus ask Cicero to describe the qualities of all the leading Roman orators up to their time. It was composed in 46 BC.

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-[[Cicero]]'s '''Brutus''' (full title: '''Cicero's Brutus''' or '''History of Famous Orators''' or '''The History of Eloquence''') is a history of [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[Eloquence|oratory]].  It is written in the form of a dialogue, in which [[Marcus_Junius_Brutus_the_Younger|Brutus]] and [[Titus_Pomponius_Atticus|Atticus]] ask Cicero to describe the qualities of all the leading Roman orators up to their time.  It was composed in 46 B.C.
+[[Cicero]]'s '''''Brutus''''' is a history of [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[Eloquence|oratory]].  It is written in the form of a dialogue, in which [[Marcus_Junius_Brutus_the_Younger|Brutus]] and [[Titus_Pomponius_Atticus|Atticus]] ask Cicero to describe the qualities of all the leading Roman orators up to their time.  It was composed in 46 BC.
 ==Further reading==
-*[[G. V. Sumner]] (1973) ''The Orators in Cicero's Brutus: Prosopography and Chronology''
+*G. V. Sumner (1973) ''The Orators in Cicero's Brutus: Prosopography and Chronology''
 *Edward A. Robinson, ''The Date of Cicero's Brutus'', Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 60, (1951), pp.&nbsp;137–146