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Often appears with: crime and punishment · roman senate debate · perjury · forms of government · equity, mercy, and pardon · corruption, patronage, and bribery · contracts, oaths, and obligation · clodius trial · cicero · catiline conspiracy · bribery
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“Terentia, therefore, as she was otherwise in her own nature neither tender-hearted nor timorous, but a woman eager for distinction, told him these things, and excited him against the conspirators.” Plutarch, Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans · observation
Cicero’s resolve against Catiline’s plot is urged by Terentia after a miraculous flame in sacrifices, leading to senate debate where Caesar proposes confiscation and confinement instead of execution, narrowly moderated into a mixed sentence.
of audacity, while he himself, whose character for courage already did not stand very high with the multitude, would be thought guilty of the greatest cowardice and want of manliness. Whilst Cicero was doubting what course to take, a portent happened to the women in their sacrificing. For on the altar, where the fire seemed wholly extinguished, a great and bright flame issued forth from the ashes of the burnt wood;…
Cicero supports prosecutions with testimony against Clodius while Terentia’s motives and personal grudges are implicated, after which Clodius’s faction uses bribery and power to pursue Cicero’s downfall.
and having been told by someone that Vatinius was dead, on hearing presently after that he was alive, "May the rascal perish," said he, "for his news not being true." Upon Caesar's bringing forward a law for the division of the lands in Campania amongst the soldiers, many in the senate opposed it; amongst the rest, Lucius Gellius, one of the oldest men in the house, said it should never pass whilst he lived. "Let us…