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Cover courtesy of Harvard University Press
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
- 501
- Date published
- 2006-05-08
- Print status
- In print
The Physical Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Dust jacket
- Yes
- Total pages
- 464 pages
- ISBN-13
- 9780674996199
Reference
- Read online
- Read Here
- Publisher page
- View at publisher
Contents
- Declamations
- 312 Heirs concerning a deposit
- 313 Wrongly convicted of homicide
- 314 I killed you, father
- 315 The hero father of a deserter
- 316 The father of a loose-liver weeping
- 317 A general challenged by his son
- 318 Legacy between freedmen
- 319 The adulteress poisoner
- 320 A fined man’s partner
- 321 Brother and doctor accuse one another of poisoning
- 322 I disown you if you don't stop
- 323 Alexander dedicating a temple
- 324 The property of a temple thief
- 325 An inheritance left in trust
- 326 Envoy's son victim of pestilence
- 327 The barren stepmother of three
- 328 Brothers at loggerheads
- 329 Burial of a tyrant felo de se
- 330 Disowned-to-be, the feeder of an adulterous mother
- 331 Twice convicted of injuries, acquitted the third time
- 332 Wills of a rich man and a poor man
- 333 A poor man eloquent at the expense of a rich man
- 334 Defender of a traitor turned prosecutor
- 335 Suspected of misconduct with his stepmother, wounded
- 336 Common land and cancellation of debts
- 337 Sedition of the people and the army
- 338 Suit concerning the son of an exposer and a divorcée
- 339 Demosthenes’ bill
- 340 The new-come slave in a praetexta
- 341 A stolen article not declared with the customs
- 342 Slave girl sent to wed a pirate chief
- 343 Swindler of a poor man, father-in-law of a rich rapist
- 344 Prostitute redeemed by rich man for poor man’s son
- 345 A poor man hired to kill a tyrant
- 346 The guardian of his son given in adoption
- 347 In husband’s absence, rumor and wedding
- 348 Prison burned along with traitors
- 349 Father of rapist accused of dementia
- 350 Cold water given to stepson
- 351 Exile, informer on a tyranny
- 352 Accused of tyranny, one who after victory considered whether to lay down his arms
- 353 Stewards tortured
- 354 She will die before she marries
- 355 Guardian accused of pandering
- 356 A man buying out his own prostitute instead of his father’s
- 357 A wife who does not want to leave one blinded for adultery
- 358 An exposed beater’s hands cut off
- 359 Suit of an exciseman about pearls
- 360 Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in litigation about their dowries
- 361 Fourfold of a stolen deposit
- 362 Beaters of their fathers, mutually
- 363 A wardrobe maid instead of her mistress
- 364 Jeering poor man killed
- 365 Seven jurymen in a case of violence
- 366 An envoy, son of a traitor, killed
- 367 Hero father of a loose-liver
- 368 A rape victim supporting her father disowned
- 369 Victor with the arms of a tomb
- 370 Rape victim in competition with rich man’s daughter
- 371 Hero’s father charged with treason
- 372 A man exposed beats his foster father
- 373 Ransomed by jewelry
- 374 A disowned son heir because of tyrannicide
- 375 Hero, son of a man accused of treason, brother of a deserter
- 376 Exposed, on oath to marry his foster father’s daughter
- 377 Summoned by father to join the army, mixing poison
- 378 Peacemaker to be disowned
- 379 Rich man brought to trial for murder by templerobbing parasite
- 380 Cross written for slave who would not give poison
- 381 Stepmother under torture saying daughter accomplice
- 382 Tyrannicide hired
- 383 Rape victim maltreated
- 384 Virgin sacrificed for plague
- 385 A man who gave a prostitute a love philtre prosecuted by her pimp
- 386 Iphicrates with a sword
- 387 Hero disowning deserter he had saved
- 388 Grandmother witness