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Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino

Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino

Cicero's first major criminal defense, taken on at real personal risk during Sulla's dictatorship, accuses one of Sulla's own freedmen of orchestrating a murder and land grab, and launched Cicero's public career on a note of open courage.

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