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School exercises in forensic argument on invented cases, preserving the practice of Roman rhetorical training.
The Edition
- Original language
- Latin
- Translated by
- D. R. Shackleton Bailey
Publication
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Series volume
- 500
- Date published
- 2006-05-08
- Print status
- In print
The Physical Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Dust jacket
- Yes
- Total pages
- 480 pages
- ISBN-13
- 9780674996182
Reference
- Read online
- Read Here
- Publisher page
- View at publisher
Contents
- Introduction
- Declamations
- 244 <Adulteress killed by exiled husband>
- 245 <Denier of deposit>
- 246 The hero stepson drugged
- 247 The property of a rich rapist
- 248 Eight years for a double involuntary homicide
- 249 Quashing of an adulterer hero
- 250 Persons under stigma cast lots
- 251 A barren rape-victim divorced
- 252 The parasite who raped a candidate
- 253 Tyrannicide willing to be surrendered
- 254 Exile accuser and equal votes
- 255 Deserters to be excluded
- 256 Mad father of three sons
- 257 Marriage between the children of enemies
- 258 Hero defies hero father
- 259 A poor man, liberator of a shipwrecked girl, husband
- 260 Feeder of the disowned
- 261 Equalization of properties
- 262 The husband who raped a virgin
- 263 Under stigma against three bills
- 264 Cheating the Voconian Law
- 265 Beater of a person under stigma in a temple
- 266 Hero ex-traitor
- 267 Abdicator of tyranny in tears close by the castle
- 268 Orator, physician, philosopher
- 269 Rich man who auctioned his property under a tyrant
- 270 Raped girl, one of twins
- 271 Three times a hero against third hero
- 272 The bereaved traitress
- 273 Debtor adulterer
- 274 The tyrant struck by lightning
- 275 Heir on account of an adulterous brother
- 276 Property of a rapist who hanged himself
- 277 The pregnant adulteress
- 278 An exposer claiming ten thousand with a hero
- 279 A rich man cuckolds a handsome youth
- 280 Rapist returned
- 281 Disowned-to-be with a sword
- 282 A tyrannicide in woman’s clothing
- 283 Cynic son of orator
- 284 The adulterer-priest
- 285 General, exile’s son
- 286 The adulterer of his ex-fiancé brother
- 287 Hero son of man on trial for treason
- 288 The tyrannicide who killed two sons
- 289 The lover of his daughter
- 290 Disowner of a son brought back by reason of insanity
- 291 Adulterer of a wife he had surrendered to his brother
- 292 The noose of the beautiful Olynthian
- 293 Tyranny over a conquered community
- 294 Rich man, charged with treason, hero
- 295 A madman, from chains a hero
- 296 Exile, hold your tongue!
- 297 Prostitute blinded by hero lover
- 298 The rustic parasite
- 299 A parricide’s bones dug up
- 300 An adulteress prosecuted before her son as judge
- 301 Girl raped as a slave by rich man
- 302 Turned gladiator to bury his father
- 303 Heroes accused of treason
- 304 Three rewards of a rich priest
- 305 Exiles forced to fight each other by rich man
- 306 Exposed child, mother denying, seeking marriage
- 307 Accomplice by poison of a traitor
- 308 Two wills
- 309 Rapist convicted
- 310 Hero twice found guilty of adultery
- 311 Addicted for debt free