Gaius Verres (c. 114 – 43 BC) was a Roman magistrate, notorious for his misgovernment of Sicily. His extortion of local farmers and plundering of temples...

Verrem" ("Against Verres") is a series of speeches made by Cicero in 70 BC, during the corruption and extortion trial of Gaius Verres, the former governor...

main evidence for Verres' actions, it is hard to get an objective idea of the impact of his activities on Sicily. Cicero emphasised Verres' very harsh implementation...

Metellus was a Roman aristocrat. He was praetor in 71 BC. He succeeded Gaius Verres as governor of Sicily in 70 BC. He died in office as consul in 68 BC...

(relating the proverb), and tries to turn Metellus against Verres by stating that Verres proclaimed it so himself. According to Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus...

first-person narrator of his secretary Tiro, beginning with the prosecution of Gaius Verres. The book is the first in a trilogy. The second volume, Lustrum (Conspirata...

80 BCE. He died in the province, and was succeeded in his office by Gaius Verres, who also became the tutor of his son. Malleolus had amassed great wealth...

Lucius Quintius, of having been illegally balloted into the concilium by Gaius Verres, at that time city praetor, for the express purpose of convicting Oppianicus...

praetorship of Gaius Verres. She was a freedwoman and a successful professional high class courtesan. She was introduced to Gaius Verres by the courtesan...

selecting a prosecutor of Gaius Verres (70 BC). Cicero asserts that he, rather than Q. Caecilius, will make the better prosecutor of Verres, the Roman magistrate...

wife of Gaius Verres. Verres was the governor of Sicily from 73 BC to 71 BC. He was also the defendant on trial in Cicero's speech Against Verres. Caprarius...

the "hunting dogs" (canes venatici) of the notorious Roman nobleman Gaius Verres, accused by Cicero in his In Verrem of using his position to plunder...

Caecilius Metellus Pius, Quintus Lutatius Catulus, Gaius Scribonius Curio, Gaius Antonius, Gaius Verres, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Quintus Titinius probably...

capsa, or book-box. The cista believed to be in the private treasure of Gaius Verres may have been a money-box. In the Roman comitia, the cista was the ballot-box...

a member of his staff: for example, Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella named Gaius Verres to serve pro quaestore in 80 BC. At other times, ex-quaestors were sent...

governor Gaius Verres, for abuse of power and corruption. In 70 BC, at the age of 36, Cicero launched his first high-profile prosecution against Verres, an...

2017-09-08. Linder, Douglas. "Second Pleading (fourth oration) of Cicero in Gaius Verres Trial". law2.umkc.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-08. The Oxford Companion to...

service of Verres. Cicero called him one of Verres' canes venatici, his hunting dogs. Artemidorus Cornelius, another agent of Gaius Verres. Cornelius...

Roman state and suffered severely from the oppressions and exactions of Gaius Verres. It also minted coins. No subsequent mention of it is found in history...

a dagger ready to assassinate the ..." Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Against Verres. "The Life of Julius Caesar". penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 12 July 2022...

BC) was a Roman praetor in 73 BC. In the next year he should follow Gaius Verres as governor of Sicilia. But first he had to support the consuls Lucius...

plunder. He was especially indulgent towards Verres, and, after Malleolus was murdered, he made Verres his proquaestor. After his return to Rome, Dolabella...

before his consulship he came into collision with Cicero in the case of Gaius Verres, and from that time his supremacy at the bar was lost. After 63, Cicero...

which it fits is 2:3. The prosecution of Gaius Verres in 70 BC was a great forensic success for Cicero. Verres' defense counsel was Rome's greatest lawyer...

Caecilius in the process for selecting a prosecutor of Gaius Verres) (70 BC) In Verrem (Against Gaius Verres, or The Verrines) (71 BC) Pro Tullio (On behalf...

Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus after his victory over the Dalmatians. Gaius Verres again restored this second temple in 73 BC. Commemorating the initial...

personal physician of the notorious Roman magistrate Gaius Verres. One of the crimes alleged against Verres was his serial plundering of valuable artworks from...

by Cicero, in the trial against the corrupt former governor of Sicily, Verres. In 66 BC, Cassius supported the Manilian law that gave command of the war...

Tlepolemus Cornelius, Roman painter of the 1st century BCE, and agent of Gaius Verres This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Tlepolemus...

and pastoral lands were damaged. The situation worsened further when Gaius Verres, praetor in Sicily in 73 BC, ordered extortion, robbery and violence...