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Cicero XXVIII Pro Flacco – Auri Judaici (Jewish Gold)

The year is 59 BC; Cicero is defending his friend, the governor Lucius Flaccus, in court against Jews who accuse him of stealing their gold. Everything is already present in Cicero’s defense of Flaccus: gold and the Jews, their penchant for legal chicanery, their propensity to confuse justice with vengeance, their way of manipulating authorities, […]