Pro Caecina
The Pro Caecina is a public speech made by Marcus Tullius Cicero on behalf of his friend Aulus Caecina in a lawsuit before the roman Praetor P. Cornelius Dolabella. The speech is dated sometime between 71 BC and 69 BC.[1] Known for its scathing characterisations of the opposing party and his counsel and witnesses, the speech is a good study for how rhetorical advocacy can occlude legal argument.[2]
External links
- Latin Wikisource has original text related to this article: Pro Aulo Caecina
- ^ Frier, Bruce W. (1983). "Urban Praetors and Rural Violence: The Legal Background of Cicero's Pro Caecina". Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-). 113: 221. doi:10.2307/284012. ISSN 0360-5949.
- ^ Frier, Bruce W., 1943- (1985). The rise of the Roman jurists : studies in Cicero's Pro Caecina. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. pp. 133–5. ISBN 0-691-03578-4. OCLC 11399889.
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