Part of: The Orations of Marcus Tullius Ciciero Orations vol. 1
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (author)
- Charles Duke Yonge (translator)
Vol. 1 of a 4 volume collection of Cicero’s orations which consisted of his political and legal speeches in which he often expressed his political views. In vol. 1 there are his Orations for Quintius, Sextus Roscius, Quintus Roscius, against Quintus, Caecilius, and against Verres.
Key Quotes
Justice
You, when you have been besieged by so illustrious a city on account of your own wickedness and crime—when you have compelled men, miserable and maddened by calamity, as if in despair of our laws and tribunals, to fly to violence, to combat, and to arms—when you have shown yourself in the towns and…