The Orations of Cicero: In Defence of Publius Sylla and Aulus Lucinius Archias (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Orations of Cicero: In Defence of Publius Sylla and Aulus Lucinius ArchiasPublius Sylla having been elected consul with Publius Autronius four years before. Had been impeached for bribery, convicted, and deprived of his consulship. He had then been prosecuted by Torquatus. He was now impeached by the younger Torquatus, the son of his former prosecutor, as having been implicated in both of Catiline's conspi racies. (autronius was accused also, and he also applied to Cicero to defend him, but Cicero, being convinced that he was guilty, not only refused to defend him, but appeared as a Witness against him.) Tor quatus's real motive appears to have been jealousy of the fame which Cicero had obtained in his consulship; and, in his speech for the pro secution, when he found that Cicero had undertaken Sylla's cause, he had attacked Cicero himself, and tried to bring him into unpopularity, calling him a king who assumed a power to save or to destroy just as he thought fit; and saying that he was the third foreign king that had reigned in Rome N uma and Tarquin being the two former. Sylla was acquitted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.