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Cicero purports he then interrupted proceedings to deliver a speech urging immediate action, [b] but the tide did not turn towards execution until Cato the Younger spoke. [ 51 ] Plutarch's summary indicates that Cato gave a passionate and forceful speech inveighing against Caesar personally and implying that Caesar was in league with the ...
Cicero, having executed members of the Catilinarian conspiracy four years before without formal trial, and having had a public falling-out with Clodius, was clearly the intended target of the law. Cicero argued that the senatus consultum ultimum indemnified him from punishment, and he attempted to gain the support of the senators and consuls ...
Cicero Denounces Catiline, fresco by Cesare Maccari, 1882–1888. The Catilinarian orations (Latin: Marci Tullii Ciceronis orationes in Catilinam; also simply the Catilinarians) are four speeches given in 63 BC by Marcus Tullius Cicero, one of the year's consuls. The speeches are all related to the discovery, investigation, and suppression of ...
Marcus Tullius Cicero [a] (/ ˈ s ɪ s ə r oʊ / SISS-ə-roh; Latin: [ˈmaːrkʊs ˈtʊlli.ʊs ˈkɪkɛroː]; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic, [4] who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. [5]
As four fires grew in Southern California, new satellite images show their scale and the amount of smoke pouring east.. The Line, Bridge, Airport and Roblar fires, all of which began in the past ...
A viral video shared on X purports to show a recent 7.0-magnitude earthquake that occurred in California. Verdict: False The claim is false, as the video shows an April 2024 earthquake that struck ...
On April 24, 1972, the Supreme Court of California ruled in People v. Anderson that the state's current death penalty laws were unconstitutional. Justice Marshall F. McComb was the lone dissenter, arguing that the death penalty deterred crime, noting numerous Supreme Court precedents upholding the death penalty's constitutionality, and stating that the legislative and initiative processes were ...
The man “dedicated his life’s work to fostering inclusivity and harmony within our society.”