Pro Caecina

The Pro Caecina is a public speech made by Marcus Tullius Cicero on behalf of his friend Aulus Caecina sometime between 71 BC and 69 BC.[1] The speech was delivered in the third hearing of a lawsuit where Caecina averred that he had been unlawfully dispossessed of a farm by use of force.[2] Known for its refinement and scathing characterisations of the opposing parties, the speech is a good study in how rhetorical advocacy can occlude legal argument.[3]

Cover of William Lambarde's Archeion (1635), which quotes from Pro Caecina: "All judicial proceedings have been devised either for the sake of putting an end to disputes, or of punishing crimes."

References

  1. Frier, Bruce W. (1983). "Urban Praetors and Rural Violence: The Legal Background of Cicero's Pro Caecina". Transactions of the American Philological Association. 113: 221–241. doi:10.2307/284012. ISSN 0360-5949. JSTOR 284012.
  2. Frier, Bruce W., 1943- (1985). The rise of the Roman jurists : studies in Cicero's Pro Caecina. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. p. 3. ISBN 0-691-03578-4. OCLC 11399889.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. Frier, Bruce W., 1943- (1985). The rise of the Roman jurists : studies in Cicero's Pro Caecina. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. pp. 133–4. ISBN 0-691-03578-4. OCLC 11399889.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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