The Verrine Orations: I, Against Caecilius, Against Verres: Pt. 1-2: Books I and II

"The Verrine Orations" stands as a monumental collection of legal speeches that defined the career of Marcus Tullius Cicero and the standards of Roman forensic rhetoric. This first volume brings together the "Divinatio against Caecilius" and the first two books of the "Action Against Gaius Verres", documenting one of the most famous corruption trials of antiquity. The work centers on the prosecution of Gaius Verres, the former governor of Sicily, whose tenure was marked by systemic extortio...