Wiki Page, History of Theatre from Ancient Greece through the 17th Century: Cicero's 'On the Laws'

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First, do a Google search for Cicero.

Next, create a Doc called Cicero. Write a few sentences that describe Cicero (who he was, what he did, where and when he lived).

Then copy and paste the following excerpt of 'On the Laws' by Cicero below your description of Cicero.

Lastly, read and annotate or highlight the excerpt and show me when you are finished. You may work with a partner.

"What comes next, then, is that we have been made by nature to participate in right, one with another, and to share it among all persons. And I want that to be understood in this entire debate when I say that [right] is by nature. But there is such corruption from bad habit that it is as if the sparks given by nature are extinguished by the corruption, and the opposite faults arise and are strengthened. But if whatever is according to nature were also according to judgment, and if human beings “thought that nothing human is alien to themselves” (as the poet [Terence] states), right would be cultivated equally by all. Those who have been given reason by nature have also been given correct reason, and thus law, which is correct reason in ordering and forbidding. If law has been given, so has right. And reason has been given to all persons."