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Murder Trials

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Form
Form Speech
Year
Year 80 BCE
Originally in
Originally in Latin
Pages
Pages 368

Rome kept a special death for the man who killed his father: sewn alive into a leather sack and thrown into the Tiber, denied earth and denied burial. That was what waited for Sextus Roscius, a farmer's son from a country town with no friends in the city, when an advocate of twenty-six who had never argued a criminal case stood up to speak for him.

to whom it had been any advantage?
Murder Trials, Marcus Tullius Cicero

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