Meidias and the Mute Witness: Cicero’s Debt to Demosthenes in the <i>Verrines</i> Reconsidered

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  • Kathryn Tempest University of Roehampton

Abstract

Cicero reworks Demosthenes’ presentation (21.83-100) of a silent victim unable to testify, in order to offer the Roman jurors, especially those familiar with Demosthenes’ speech, a visible and powerful testimony to Verres’ malfeasance.

Author Biography

Kathryn Tempest, University of Roehampton

Senior Lecturer in Latin Literature and Roman History, Department of Humanities.

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2019-05-27

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