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Cicero: Verrines II,1

with translation and commentary by T. N. Mitchell

Cicero's first major triumph was the prosecution of Caius Verres for misgovernment in Sicily. This speech was given in the second part of the trial and shows the development of Cicero's rhetoric. This edition communicates the literary flavour of the original and discusses the historical and political background to the trial, with examination of noteworthy textual cruces and problems of interpretation. Text with translation and commentary. (Aris and Phillips 1986)

Table of contents

INTRODUCTION:
The Extortion Court
The Career of Verres
The Trial
The Political Impications of the Trial
The Transmission of the Text
NOTES ON THE INTRODUCTION
BIBLIOGRAPHY

PARELLEL LATIN TEXT & ENGLISH TRANSLATION
COMMENTARY

Biographical note

T. N. Mitchell was a former Professor of Latin at Trinity College Dublin. In 1975-76 he spent a year in Trinity on a Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship and in 1979 was appointed as the Chair of Latin in Swathmore College. With research interests centred in the history and politics of the late Roman Republic, Mitchell has won wide acclaim for his work on Cicero: The Senior Statesman. (1991)

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