Pro Murena 16 and Cicero's Use of Historical Exempla

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ID3939043
AutoresJ H D''Arm, J H D'Arm, John H D'Arms (autor correspondente)
Ano1972
Volume26
Fascículo1
Páginas82
Data de publicação1972-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhoenix (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1087211
OpenAlexW2323383408
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16

IN WHAT IS BY FAR the most substantial portion of the refutatio in the Pro Murena, the contentio dignitatis,1 Cicero undertakes to show that his client's claims to the consulship are more compelling than those of Ser. Sulpicius Rufus, Murena's unsuccessful competitor in the consular elections of 63, and his accuser under the lex de ambitu. In answer to Sulpicius Rufus' contention that his was the nobler family, Cicero draws upon historical precedent. It is by virtuous qualities, he argues, rather than by nobility of birth that a man must be judged, and he goes on to employ an exemplum involving two consulars of earlier days

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