Pro Sestio. In Vatinium
The statesman defends a friend and assails an enemy.

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that 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, fifty-eight survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication. Six rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions and a number of others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as translations from the Greek.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.

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Pro Sestio. In Vatinium
The statesman defends a friend and assails an enemy.

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that 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, fifty-eight survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication. Six rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions and a number of others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as translations from the Greek.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.

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Pro Sestio. In Vatinium

Pro Sestio. In Vatinium

Pro Sestio. In Vatinium

Pro Sestio. In Vatinium

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The statesman defends a friend and assails an enemy.

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that 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, fifty-eight survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication. Six rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions and a number of others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as translations from the Greek.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674993419
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 01/01/1958
Series: Loeb Classical Library , #309
Edition description: 3rd printing/1st pub.1958/index
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.00(d)
Language: Latin

About the Author

Robert Gardner (1889–1972) was Fellow and Bursar of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

List Of Cicero's Works

Preface

Table Of Events In Roman Politics From 60 BCE To 56 BCE

Roman Politics From 63 BCE To 57 BCE

Pro Sestio And In Vatinium

I. Introduction to the Pro Sestio and the In Vatinium

II. Pro Sestio—Text and Translation

III. In Vatinium—Text and Translation

IV. The Purpose of the Pro Sestio

V. Cicero and Caesar in the In Vatinium
VI. The Lex Aelia Fufia in the Late Republic

VII. P. Sestius

VIII. P. Vatinius

IX. Summary of the Pro Sestio

X. Summary of the In Vatinium

Bibliography

Index

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