Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position. In verrem against verres is a series of speeches made by cicero in 70 bc, during the. Exordio del primer discurso contra catilina, ciceron. Against verres wikisource, the free online library. Ciceron, marco tulio filipicas bilingue pdf historico digital. Politico romano, conocido por su tiranico gobierno en sicilia. Quamquam te, marce fili, annum iam audientem cratippum, idque athenis, abundare oportet praeceptis institutisque philosophiae propter summam et doctoris auctoritatem et urbis, quorum alter te scientia augere potest, altera exemplis, tamen, ut ipse ad meam utilitatem semper cum graecis latina coniunxi neque id in philosophia solum, sed etiam in dicendi exercitatione feci. In 70 bc cicero, who had served as quaestor in sicily five years previously, was commissioned by the sicilians to prosecute the islands former governor, gaius verres, for corruption.
Ciceros prosecution speeches were later published as the verrine orations. Ciceron, elu questeur en 76, exerce sa charge a lilybee, en sicile. Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder. That 1 which was above all things to be desired, o judges, and which above all things was calculated to have the greatest influence toward allaying the unpopularity of your order, and putting an end to the discredit into which your judicial decisions have fallen, appears to have been thrown in your way, and given to you not by any human contrivance, but almost by the interposition of the gods. Pdf ciceron discursos v gredos alexandre luis dos santos. The records of the trial of gaius sometimes spelled caius verres revealfar better than any other extant sourcethe corruption of the last years of the roman republic. In 70 bc cicero, who had served as quaestor in sicily five years previously, was commissioned by the sicilians to prosecute the islands former governor, gaius. The speeches, which were concurrent with ciceros election to the aedileship, paved the way for ciceros public career. Online books about this author are available, as is a wikipedia article cicero, marcus tullius, contrib ad c. First he had to fight for the right to deliver the prosecution instead of quintus caecilius niger, a client of verres who would likely have neutered the case against him. Feb 01, 20 verres was defended by the eminent orator quintus hortensius, who intended to use procedure to spin the trial out until an upcoming public holiday in the hope of securing a more sympathetic judge, but cicero prevented this by delivering a quick and damning summary of his evidence rather than the lengthy speeches he had drafted. Pendant son mandat, il ecrasa les villes dimpots illegaux, il sappropria toutes les. Cicero, segundo discurso contra caio verres livro 4. This particular passage is from the second book of ciceros speeches against verres, who was a former roman magistrate on trial for serious misconduct.