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The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. II: Rome

The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. II: Rome

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In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey compiled a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period, ranging from Ancient Greece to their contemporary United States. This is the second volume in this series, in which the most famous speeches of great Roman statesmen are collected, including Cicero, Seneca, and Julius Caesar. - Summary by Carolin

Cicero - II - In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law, part 2

Cicero - VII - The Second Oration Against Mark Antony, part 2

Agricola - To His Army in Scotland

Caius Marius - On Being Accused of a Low Origin

Caius Memmius - On a Corrupt Oligarchy

Catiline - I - An Exhortation to Conspiracy

Catiline - II - To His Army Before His Defeat in Battle

Cato the Censor - In Support of the Oppian Law

Cato the Younger - On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators

Cicero - I - The First Oration Against Verres

Cicero - II - In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law, part 1

Cicero - III - The First Oration Against Catiline

Cicero - IV - The Second Oration Against Catiline

Cicero - V - In Behalf of Archias the Poet

Cicero - VI - The First Oration Against Mark Antony

Cicero - VII - The Second Oration Against Mark Antony, part 1

Germanicus - I - To His Mutinous Troops

Germanicus - II - To His Friends When Dying

Hannibal - Address to His Soldiers

Julius Caesar - On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators

Mark Anthony - His Oration Over the Dead Body of Caesar

Otho - I - On Becoming Emperor

Otho - II - To His Soldiers in Rome

Otho - III - To His Soldiers Before Committing Suicide

Publius Cornelius Scipio - To His Army Before Battle

Scipio Africanus Major - To His Mutinous Troops

Seneca - To Nero When in Disfavor

The Gracchi - I - Fragments by Tiberius Gracchus

The Gracchi - II - Fragments by Caius Gracchus