Thesauros Edebiyat Hitabet Pro L. Flacco

Pro L. Flacco

Pro L. Flacco Cicero, Marcus Tullius
We may observe, since there has been some dispute as to the order in which this oration should be printed, that it cannot have been spoken before the year 695, A. U. C., in the consulship of Caius Julius Caesar and Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, for Cicero's consulship took place A. U. C. 691, and after that Flaccus was occupied as propraetor for three years in Asia, and it could not have been before the expiration of his praetorship, and his return from it, that this prosecution was instituted. Flaccus was acquitted.
This oration is imperfect and mutilated in some places.
1 When in the greatest perils of this city and empire, in the most important and terrible disasters of the republic, I was repelling slaughter from you, your wives, and your children, devastation from your temples, your altars, from the city and from Italy, with Lucius Flaccus, the companion and assistant of my counsels and my dangers, I used to hope, O judges, that I should some time or other be an assistant of Lucius Flaccus towards obtaining honour, rather than an advocate to defend him from calamity. For what reward of dignity could there be which the Roman people would deny to him, when it had always given them to his ancestors; when Lucius Flaccus had imitated the ancient glory of the Valerian family in delivering his country, nearly five hundred years after the existence of the republic?

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