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Cicero (106 BC-43 BC), was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, and consul. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. His influence on the Latin language was so immense that the subsequent history of prose in not only Latin but European languages up to the 19th century was said to be either a reaction against or a return to his style. Cicero introduced several words into Latin that do not appear in any other sources from antiquity including: evidence, individual human being (“person”), character witness (“testis”), constitutional law (“jus civile”).