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Cicero's speech on behalf of Roscius of Ameria in Umbria represents his first public 'cause celebre' in 80 BC when he was just twenty-six. It followed closely the notorius proscriptions made under hte dictator Sulla. One of Sulla's freedman favourites, Chrysogonus, had criminally contrived to have Roscius' wealthy father's name added to the list of the proscribed after his death and after closure of the list, with the aim of depriving Roscius of his substantial inheritance. Cicero's speech, one of his most straightforward and yet powerful, brought him into immediate political danger but at...

Ciceros De re publica umreißt die bestmögliche Verfassung für einen Staat - die Schwesterschrift De legibus die dafür nötigen Gesetze, Ämter und Institutionen. Die Themen dieses philosophischen Dialogs sind bisweilen abstrakt, doch auch ganz konkrete Gesetze werden von den Gesprächsteilnehmern diskutiert. Das Recht der Römischen Republik war - heute unvorstellbar - nicht umfassend schriftlich kodifiziert, stattdessen bildeten Einzelentscheidungen die Basis für zukünftige Rechtsprechung: De legibus ist damit zugleich der erste überlieferte Versuch,...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political, before jurors if judicial, 58 survive (a few of them incompletely). In the...

This edition of Cicero's fifth oration against Verres, a Roman magistrate prosecuted for his notorious misgovernment of Sicily, includes introduction, the Latin text, a comprehensive commentary of the text and a vocabulary. The introduction, divided into seven sections, describes the history and condition of Sicily down to the time of Verres, with special attention to Roman administration and the duties of Roman governors.