The life of Cicero
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1880. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. VERRES. There are six episodes,--or, as I may say, divisions,-- in the life of Cicero to which special interest attaches itself. The first is the accusation against Verres, in which he drove the miscreant ...
MoreBook may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1880. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. VERRES. There are six episodes,--or, as I may say, divisions,-- in the life of Cicero to which special interest attaches itself. The first is the accusation against Verres, in which he drove the miscreant howling out of the city. The second is his consulship, in which he drove Catiline out of the city, and caused certain other conspirators who were joined with the arch rebel to be killed--either legally or illegally. The third was his exile, in which he himself was driven out of Eome. The fourth was a driving out too, though of a more honourable kind, when he was compelled, much against his will, to undertake the government of a province. The fifth was Caesar's passing of the Eubicon, the battle of Pharsalia and his subsequent adherence to Caesar. The last was his internecine combat with Antony, which produced the Philippics and that memorable series of letters in which he strove to stir into flames the expiring embers of the Eepublic. The literary work with which we are acquainted is spread,--but spread very unequally,-- over his whole life. I have already told the story of Sextus Eoscius Amerinus, having taken it from his own words. From that time onwards he wrote continually,--but the fervid VOL. I. L stream of his eloquence came forth from him with unrivalled rapidity in the twenty last miserable months of his life. We have now come to the first of those episodes, and T have to tell the way in which Cicero struggled with Verres, and how he conquered him. In 74 B.C. Verres was Praetor in Eome. At that period of the Eepublic there were eight Praetors elected annually, two of whom remained in the city, whereas the others were employed abroad, generally with the armies of the Empire. In the next year, 73 B.c., Verres went in due course to Sicily with proconsular, or pro-...
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