... was passed the senators had to take a vote promising to protect the bill against tampering, a vote which was grudgingly taken, even by Cato after Cicero had persuaded him but this only increased resentment in the house. It seems that Cato withdrew together with most of the senate , by now the only ... hostile to him and with tribunes loyal to his cause who would defend his administration in his absence . The ideal candidate to do this would have been Cicero who was without any question loyal to the constitution and a loyal friend of Pompey's, a friend Pompey had shown he could control. ...

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... to assuage the plebs and lessen their anger towards Coriolanus, saying in commentary, "you would have thought they were all on trial" (Livy, 2.35). This brings to mind Cicero's speech, In Verrem II.5, in which he rebukes the governor of Sicily for acting as a tyrant and furthermore accuses the senatorial class of attempting to protect Verres from justice because ... it would harm their own political standing (Cicero, In Verrem II.5, 174-175). The idea of Livy having intimate knowledge of whether or not the senators of 491 BCE were attempting to protect Coriolanus is almost absurd. Inste...

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... conquered tribes and peoples, Rome absorbed them, integrating them into their culture. This made them much easier to control, because they felt like they belonged to Rome. This is what Cicero had to say about it: "Every citizen of a corporate town [one annexed by Rome] has, I take it, two fatherlands, that of which he is a native, and that of which he ... ruled the Republic with terror, using the army and their henchmen as muscle.(77-78) The only person who continually voiced his opposition to the triumvirate was the famous orator, Cicero. The triumvirate chased him into hiding. In 58 B...

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