The Lesser Declamations, Volume 2Mock trial--Roman style. The Lesser Declamations, dating perhaps from the second century AD and attributed to Quintilian, might more accurately be described as emanating from "the school of Quintilian." The collection--here made available for the first time in translation--represents classroom materials for budding Roman lawyers. The instructor who composed these specimen speeches for fictitious court cases adds his comments and suggestions concerning presentation and arguing tactics--thereby giving us insight into Roman law and education. A wide range of scenarios is imagined. Some evoke the plots of ancient novels and comedies: pirates, exiles, parents and children in conflict, adulterers, rapists, and wicked stepmothers abound. Other cases deal with such matters as warfare between neighboring cities, smuggling, historical (and quasi-historical) events, tyrants and tyrannicides. Two gems are the speech opposing a proposal to equalize wealth, and the case of a Cynic youth who has forsworn worldly goods but sues his father for cutting off his allowance. Of the original 388 sample cases in the collection, 145 survive. These are now added to the Loeb Classical Library in a two-volume edition, a fluent translation by D. R. Shackleton Bailey facing an updated Latin text. |
Contents
Heirs concerning a deposit | 2 |
Wrongly convicted of homicide | 7 |
killed you father | 16 |
The hero father of a deserter | 26 |
The father of a looseliver weeping | 36 |
A general challenged by his son | 43 |
Legacy between freedmen | 51 |
The adulteress poisoner | 55 |
Father of rapist accused of dementia | 297 |
Cold water given to stepson | 305 |
Exile informer on a tyranny | 310 |
Accused of tyranny one who after victory considered whether to lay down his arms | 317 |
Stewards tortured | 319 |
She will die before she marries | 323 |
A man buying out his own prostitute instead of his fathers | 329 |
A wife who does not want to leave one blinded for adultery | 331 |
A fined mans partner | 61 |
Brother and doctor accuse one another of poisoning | 67 |
disown you if you dont stop | 83 |
Alexander dedicating a temple | 89 |
The property of a temple thief | 103 |
An inheritance left in trust | 107 |
Envoys son victim of pestilence | 116 |
The barren stepmother of three | 123 |
Brothers at loggerheads | 125 |
Burial of a tyrant felo de se | 135 |
Disownedtobe the feeder of an adulterous mother | 145 |
Twice convicted of injuries acquitted the third time | 151 |
Wills of a rich man and a poor man | 165 |
A poor man eloquent at the expense of a rich man | 173 |
Defender of a traitor turned prosecutor | 181 |
Suspected of misconduct with his stepmother wounded | 186 |
Common land and cancellation of debts | 197 |
Sedition of the people and the army | 203 |
Suit concerning the son of an exposer and a divorcée | 213 |
Demosthenes bill | 229 |
The newcome slave in a praetexta | 237 |
A stolen article not declared with the customs | 243 |
Slave girl sent to wed a pirate chief | 249 |
Swindler of a poor man fatherinlaw of a rich rapist | 259 |
Prostitute redeemed by rich man for poor mans son | 267 |
A poor man hired to kill a tyrant | 273 |
The guardian of his son given in adoption | 283 |
In husbands absence rumor and wedding | 285 |
Prison burned along with traitors | 290 |
An exposed beaters hands cut off | 333 |
Suit of an exciseman about pearls | 334 |
Motherinlaw and daughterinlaw in litigation about their dowries | 337 |
Fourfold of a stolen deposit | 340 |
Beaters of their fathers mutually | 342 |
Jeering poor man killed | 345 |
Seven jurymen in a case of violence | 349 |
An envoy son of a traitor killed | 355 |
Hero father of a looseliver | 357 |
A rape victim supporting her father disowned | 361 |
Victor with the arms of a tomb | 363 |
Heros father charged with treason | 368 |
A man exposed beats his foster father | 373 |
Ransomed by jewelry | 379 |
A disowned son heir because of tyrannicide | 381 |
Hero son of a man accused of treason brother of a deserter | 387 |
Exposed on oath to marry his foster fathers daughter | 388 |
Summoned by father to join the army mixing poison | 393 |
Peacemaker to be disowned | 401 |
Rich man brought to trial for murder by temple robbing parasite | 403 |
Cross written for slave who would not give poison | 406 |
Stepmother under torture saying daughter accomplice | 409 |
Tyrannicide hired | 410 |
Rape victim maltreated | 413 |
Virgin sacrificed for plague | 416 |
A man who gave a prostitute a love philtre prosecuted by her pimp | 419 |
Iphicrates with a sword | 423 |
Hero disowning deserter he had saved | 425 |