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Murder trials / Cicero ; translated with an introduction by Michael Grant.
LIBRA PA6307.A4 G73
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Series:
- Penguin classics ; L288.
- The Penguin classics ; L288
- Standardized Title:
- Orationes. English. Selections. 1975
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Trials (Murder)--Rome.
- Trials (Murder).
- Physical Description:
- 367 pages : genealogical tables, maps ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Harmondsworth, Eng. : Penguin, 1975, c1973.
- Summary:
- Cicero was still in his twenties when he got Sextus Roscius off a charge of murdering his father and nearly sixty when he defended King Deiotarus, accused of trying to murder Caesar. In between (with, among others, his speeches for Cluentius and Rabirius), he built a reputation as the greatest orator of his time.Cicero defended his practice partly on moral or compassionate grounds of 'human decency'--sentiments with which we today would agree. His clients generally went free. And in vindicating men--who sometimes did not deserve it--he left us a mass of detail about Roman life, law and history and, in two of the speeches, graphic pictures of the 'gun-law' of small provincial towns.
- Contents:
- In defence of Sextus Roscius of Ameria
- In defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus
- In defence of Gaius Rabirius
- Note on the speeches in defence of Caelius and Milo
- In defence of King Deiotarus.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-14-044288-x
- OCLC:
- 2133768
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