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  Cicero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He wrote that in Sicily he saw the gravestone of Archimedes of Syracuse, on which was carved Archimedes' favorite discovery in geometry, that the ratio of the volume of a sphere to that of the smallest right circular cylinder in which it fits is 2:3.
He built an extremely successful law practice, and first attained prominence for his successful prosecution in August 70 BC of Gaius Verres, the former governor of Sicily.
Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus and Agis and Cleomenes - Timoleon and Aemilius Paullus - Themistocles and Camillus
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 Learn more about List of ancient Romans in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Gaius Calpurnius Crassus Frugi Licinianus - suffect consul
Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder) - scholar
Gaius Sallustius Passienus Crispus - consul, grandson of Sallust
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 Articles - Promagistrate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Promagistrates were usually either proquaestors (acting in place of quaestors), propraetors, acting in place of praetors, or proconsuls acting in place of consuls.
It became fairly common for provincial governors to seek continual election to office to avoid trial for extortion and bribery, several famous examples being Gaius Verres and.
The near limitless power of a high-ranking promagistrate has led to the term "proconsul" being used to designate any high-ranking and authoritative official appointed from above (or from without) to govern a territory without regard for local political institutions (´´i.e.´´, one who is not elected and whose authority supersedes that of local officials).
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 Marcus Tullius Cicero Verteidigungsrede Artemis Winkler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Als Ankläger in einem Strafprozess trat Cicero nur einmal auf, nämlich gegen Verres.
Chr), Diese fünf Reden wurden wegen Verres' freiwilligem Gang ins Exil nicht vorgetragen, sondern schriftlich veröffentlicht
Berühmt wurde er auch durch seine Reden gegen Verres (70 v.
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 Footnotes; David Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary: Library of Economics and Liberty
[Verres was Roman governor of Sicily from 73 to 70 B.C. He plundered the province and committed many acts of extreme cruelty.
At the expiration of his term in 70, he was prosecuted before the senatorial Extortion Court at Rome by Cicero, who represented the Sicilians.
Cicero's prosecution of Verres was conducted so brilliantly that Verres withdrew into voluntary exile before the trial could be completed.
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