Cicero's Brutus (full title: Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators or The History of Eloquence) is a history of Romanoratory. 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 B.C.
Further reading
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. 137–146
