Orations

This collection gathers the public speeches of Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Roman advocate and consul, from the late Republic. Typical contents include the Verrine prosecutions of a corrupt governor, the Catilinarian orations against a conspiracy at Rome, forensic defences such as that of Milo, and the Philippics against Mark Antony. The settings are law courts and the Senate. Cicero argues about extortion, treason, civic violence, and the limits of extraordinary power. The volume is a body of oratory rather than a continuous history: each speech is a performance aimed at judges, senators, or the people at a particular crisis.

Bound in purple cloth, cover blocked in gold and with a picture of Cicero. Gold slipcase.