• 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...
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  • "Cornelius". Cicero seems to imply that they and other partisans of Verres (such as Artemidorus Cornelius) did not previously have the name "Cornelius"...
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    service of Verres. Cicero called him one of Verres' canes venatici, his hunting dogs. Artemidorus Cornelius, another agent of Gaius Verres. Cornelius Nepos...
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  • 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...
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  • plunder. He was especially indulgent towards Verres, and, after Malleolus was murdered, he made Verres his proquaestor. After his return to Rome, Dolabella...
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  • Gnaeus, Gaius, Marcus, and Lucius. Most of the Octavii of the Republic were descended from Gnaeus Octavius Rufus, who had two sons, Gnaeus and Gaius. The...
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  • personal physician of the notorious Roman magistrate Gaius Verres. One of the crimes alleged against Verres was his serial plundering of valuable artworks from...
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    restrict the ravages of Gaius Verres in Sicily. Finally, Clodianus proposed a bill for recovering payment, which Lucius Cornelius Sulla had remitted, from...
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    Sicilian, and quaestor of Verres during his administration of Sicily. He contended with Cicero for the prosecution of Verres, pretending to be the enemy...
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  • 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...
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  • of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus Cornelia - Caesar's first wife Cornelia Metella - wife of Pompey Gaius Cornelius - tribune Cornelius Severus - poet Lucius...
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  • Metellus Pius, Quintus Lutatius Catulus, Gaius Scribonius Curio, Gaius Antonius, Gaius Verres, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Quintus Titinius probably profited...
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    subsequently that of Verres. Marcus Claudius M. f. Marcellus Aeserninus, a young man who appeared as a witness at the trial of Verres, in 70 BC. Claudius...
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  • iii. 9, 12, 21, 23. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales iv. 22. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales vi. 30. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales iii. 21. Lucius...
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  • 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...
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  • should follow Gaius Verres as governor of Sicilia. But first he had to support the consuls Lucius Gellius Publicola and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus...
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  • Ptolemaic Egypt around 200 BC Tlepolemus Cornelius, Roman painter of the 1st century BCE, and agent of Gaius Verres This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    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...
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  • Niger, the quaestor of Verres, who became his employer when Caecilius left Sicily. Potamo became one of those through whom Verres worked his depredations...
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    in the trial of Oppianicus. In 70 BC, he was a juror in the trial of Gaius Verres, and was elected military tribune for the following year. As praetor...
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  • praetor in 74 BC. Marcus Caelius, an eques, from whom Verres took away several silver vases, in 71 BC. Gaius Caelius, tribune of the plebs in 51 BC, with several...
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  • outlawed by Sulla in 88 BC, along with Gaius Marius. Rubrius, an ally of Verres, whose intelligence led Verres to the house of Philodamus at Lampsacus...
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    argentarius, with whom Verres had pecuniary dealings. Quintus Curtius Postumus, brother of Gnaeus, an argentarius and friend of Verres, is called by Cicero...
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  • had belonged to Publius Cornelius Dolabella, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and Marcus Antonius, a century and a half earlier. Gaius Gavius Silvanus, tribune...
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  • trial against the former people's tribune Gaius Cornelius whom the nobility considered a revolutionary; Cornelius was defended by Cicero. In 63 BC, Marcus...
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    Bellienus, praetor in 105 BC, served under Gaius Marius in the war against Jugurtha and Bocchus. Gaius Annius Bellienus, legate of Marcus Fonteius in...
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  • under Roman rule. August – In Rome, Cicero prosecutes former governor Verres; Verres exiles himself to Marseille before the trial is over. The office of...
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    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...
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    as the senator Gaius Herennius, convicted of peculatio at some point before 69. Titus Herennius, a banker at Leptis Magna, whom Verres had put to death...
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  • Lucius Cornelius Cinna, a supporter of Gaius Marius. In 87 BC, he was one of Sulla's lieutenants in Italy, and he attempted to stop the return of Gaius Marius...
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