• Gaius Verres (c. 114 – 43 BC) was a Roman magistrate, notorious for his misgovernment of Sicily. His extortion of local farmers and plundering of temples...
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  • Verrem" ("Against Verres") is a series of speeches made by Cicero in 70 BC, during the corruption and extortion trial of Gaius Verres, the former governor...
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    main evidence for Verres' actions, it is hard to get an objective idea of the impact of his activities on Sicily. Cicero emphasised Verres' very harsh implementation...
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  • praetorship of Gaius Verres. She was a freedwoman and a successful professional high class courtesan. She was introduced to Gaius Verres by the courtesan...
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  • (relating the proverb), and tries to turn Metellus against Verres by stating that Verres proclaimed it so himself. According to Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus...
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  • Metellus was a Roman aristocrat. He was praetor in 71 BC. He succeeded Gaius Verres as governor of Sicily in 70 BC. He died in office as consul in 68 BC...
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  • Lucius Quintius, of having been illegally balloted into the concilium by Gaius Verres, at that time city praetor, for the express purpose of convicting Oppianicus...
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  • Caecilius Metellus Pius, Quintus Lutatius Catulus, Gaius Scribonius Curio, Gaius Antonius, Gaius Verres, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Quintus Titinius probably...
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  • wife of Gaius Verres. Verres was the governor of Sicily from 73 BC to 71 BC. He was also the defendant on trial in Cicero's speech Against Verres. Caprarius...
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  • first-person narrator of his secretary Tiro, beginning with the prosecution of Gaius Verres. The book is the first in a trilogy. The second volume, Lustrum (Conspirata...
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