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- A politician, a great orator and lawyer, a writer in his spare time, Cicero was an important and well-known figure in the first century BC. But his daily life was not always punctuated by the courts or the forum. Through his correspondence, the orator reveals certain periods of his life, sometimes troubled by unexpected events: a declining republic, months of misery far from home, the death of his daughter, etc. Each unforeseen event had an impact on his life. Each unexpected event affected his health, both physically and psychologically. His illnesses disrupt his plans. The illnesses of his relatives worry him. Far from them, through words, he gets involved to help them find the way to recovery. In this study, it is possible to discover, through these letters, Cicero's vision of medicine and health, the place that the latter took in his life and those of the Romans between 67 and the death of Caesar on the ides of March 44 BC, whether through the use of polite formulas, figures of speech or Greek and Latin expressions.