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Ancient Roman Orations, 218 BCE – 84 CE

Ancient Roman Orations,218 BCE – 84 CE

This period in Rome saw some of the greatest orators in history. From Cicero to Julius Caesar, the following speeches describe the important events from the Roman Republic and Empire.

Titles

Publius Cornelius Scipio: To His Army Before Battle (218 B.C.) (Publius Cornelius Scipio)

Hannibal: Address to His Soldiers (218 B.C.) (Hannibal)

Cato the Censor: In Support of the Oppian Law (215 B.C.) (Cato the Censor)

Scipio Africanus Major: To His Mutinous Troops (203 B.C.) (Scipio Africanus the Elder)

Tiberius Gracchus: I Fragments by Tiberius Gracchus (About 133 B.C.) (Tiberius Gracchus)

Caius Gracchus: I Fragments by Tiberius Gracchus (About 122 B.C.) (Caius Gracchus)

Caius Memmius: On a Corrupt Oligarchy (About 110 B.C.) (Caius Memmius)

Caius Marius: On Being Accused of a Low Origin (106 B.C.) (Caius Marius)

Cicero: I the First Oration Against Verres (70 B.C.) (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Cicero: II in Opposition to a New Agrarian Law (61 B.C.) (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Cicero: III the First Oration Against Catiline (63 B.C.) (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Cicero: I the Second Oration Against Catiline (70 B.C.) (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Cicero: V in Behalf of Archias the Poet (61 B.C.) (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Cicero: VI the First Oration Against Marth Antony (44 B.C.) (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Cicero: VII the Second Oration Against Mark Antony (70 B.C.) (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Mark Antony: His Oration Over the Dead Body of CSar (44 B.C.) (Mark Antony)

Catiline: I an Exhortation to Conspiracy (63 B.C.) (Lucius Sefius Catiline)

Catiline: II to His Army Before His Defeat in Battle (63 B.C.) (Lucius Sefius Catiline)

Julius CSar: On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators (63 B.C.) (Julius Caesar)

Cato the Younger: On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators (63 B.C.) (Cato the Younger)

Germanicus: I to His Mutinous Troops (14 A.D.) (Germanicus Julius Caesar)

Germanicus: II to His Friends When Dying (19 A.D.) (Germanicus Julius Caesar)

Seneca: To Nero When in Disfavor (62 A.D.) (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

Otho: I on Becoming Emperor (69 A.D.) (Otho)

Otho: II to His Soldiers in Rome (69 A.D.) (Otho)

Otho: III to His Soldiers Before Committing Suicide (69 A.D.) (Otho)

Agricola: To His Army in Scotland (84 A.D.) (Gnaeus Julius Agricola)