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Article: Cicero, Catiline, and Conspiracy: vying for control, Lucius Catiline conspired to become Rome's monarch, while Cicero worked to expose and thwart his plans and keep Rome's Republic alive.(History--Rome)
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- The New American
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- December 13, 2004
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This is the sixth installment in a series of articles on the rise and fall of the Roman Republic.
Sometime in the year 75 B.C., a boat sailed from Italy bound for the island of Rhodes in the eastern Mediterranean. The boat's most important passenger was a 25-year-old Roman advocate, who was sailing with his entourage. The advocate, Caius Julius Caesar, was already well known in the Roman capital for his flowing and persuasive oratory and for having logged a string of successful prosecutions of corrupt governors. The young Caesar was sailing to Rhodes to improve his rhetorical skills under the tutelage of the legendary Appolonius Molo, a noted philosopher and ...
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Article: Julius Caesar: Scene I. Rome. A Street.
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...00-00-0000 Scene I. Rome. A Street. Enter Flavius, Marullus ... home? What tributaries follow him to Rome To grace in captive bonds his chariot ... O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and ...
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