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20 décembre 2012
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Ancient Rome textual studies Cicero’s speech Latin text translation rhetoric legal culture Classics Linguistics LAN009010 CFFSujets proches
Hours (Time) Talking Speaking Language and languages--Rhetoric Argumentation Speaking Oratory, Primitive Linguistic science Science of language Case Blackmail Chantage Cultural sociology Culture--Social aspects Sociology of culture Public speakingCiter ce document
Ingo Gildenhard, « Introduction », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.1jk2fo
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In 70 BC, when Gnaeus Pompeius and Marcus Licinius Crassus shared the consulship for the first time, Rome’s rising star in oratory, Marcus Tullius Cicero, successfully prosecuted Gaius Verres on the charge of misconduct, especially extortion, during his term as governor of Sicily (73-71 BC). Cicero won the case against major resistance. Verres’ pockets were sufficiently deep for an extensive campaign of bribery. In Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica, Lucius Cornelius Sisenna, and Q...