Ciceronian age

Ciceronian age, of Roman literature, a term sometimes used to signify the period in Latin literature that roughly coincided with the manhood of Cicero and the last years of the republic, about 70 to 30 BC. The writers of the period apart from Cicero include Lucretius, Catullus, Sallust, and Varro. Virgil is generally associated with the Augustan age although he had written the Eclogues and Ceorgics by 30 BC.