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Yann Berthelet, « La consecratio du terrain de la domus palatine de Cicéron », Mélanges de l’École française de Rome - Antiquité, ID : 10.4000/mefra.3614
Clodius completes the publicatio of Cicero’s property by the consecration of a shrine to the goddess Libertas on the area left vacant by the destruction of the palatine domus of the consul of 63 BC and of Catulus’ portico. This study seeks to account for the choice of the tribune of the plebs of 58 BC not to opt for a tribunician consecratio of his opponent’s property – which cannot be explained by a supposed « secularization » of Roman society at the end of the Republic – : the use of the pontifical rite to consecrate a sanctuary on the site of the great orator’s domus is actually the only way to make the ground inaccessible to appropriation; it also permits to assimilate the consul responsible for the execution of the Catilinians to the figure of a king-tyrant – rather than to that of an aspirant after tyranny, as Cicero would have us believe.