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Cicero
43 BCE - Italy
In hiding with the sound of horsemen on the road, Rome's greatest orator sets down the case he will never deliver.
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43 BCE to 43 BCE
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Cicero is killed in the proscriptions
43 BCE · Formiae, Italy
Formiae becomes the place where republican eloquence finally loses to the violence it could diagnose but not stop.
Cicero keeps the event human because the end of a constitution is forced here through one body that had spent decades trying to speak the republic back into existence.
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Cicero
43 BCE - Italy
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In hiding with the sound of horsemen on the road, Rome's greatest orator sets down the case he will never deliver.