Marcus Tullius Cicero's Speech In The Roman Senate

Marcus Tullius Cicero’s quote from his speech in the Roman Senate, speaks to the topic of traitors. Cicero’s purpose was to persuade his audience about the insidious characteristics of disloyalty and treason. Cicero’s claims regarding his opinions on treason and enemies are defendable. Cicero employs a number of methods to achieve his purpose. His use of attributing human qualities to an object or abstraction and creating images through his detailed words provided by his statement about evil expands on achieving his message in his speech in the Roman Senate in 58 B.C. Cicero begins by saying, “A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within.” In his opening, Cicero expresses that we can live with people who
It provides audiences an image, for example, of a spy. In the case that on one side they may completely be viewed and act like they are on equal terms with the “good.” However, they are actually against the “good” and are working for the “bad” or “evil” and, as stated previously, are “undermin[ing],” an “enemy,” and a “traitor.” How Cicero relates each scenario of a traitor back with any of the key words creates a story of how “the traitor appears not a traitor” and how the traitor “speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments.” This depicts how a traitor, when within a group, acts and pretends to be the same as everyone else and on their side. Meanwhile, they are really just obtaining information so in the end they can “stab them in the back” and use what they said against them and bring it back to the evil/enemies. In conclusion, the central image embedded in this quote made by Roman Statesman, Philosopher, and Orator, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) is evil and how it moves freely. Cicero wants his audience to understand that not everyone is loyal to a nation and that some are here to knock down a nation, even if it is done