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In difesa di Milone

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200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 52

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Marco Tullio Cicerone

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331 reviews4 followers
June 7, 2017
I pity Cicero. He probably did the best he could in a pretty hopeless situation, but with arguments like that it was kind of laughable.
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10 reviews
May 27, 2025
entertainment value 10/10. prominent example of a cicero yapfest I fear
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5 reviews
April 21, 2020
One of, if not the best speech by Cicero, carefully weaving the main several themes around countless minor applications, for it is a splendid commentary on the contemporary politics, it gives an interesting implication for modern politics, it has many a glimpse of Roman culture, religious, mundane, judicial, even their reverence for the Greeks, yet in all these aspects it still comes down to one single lie Cicero defends with such passion and beauty, the lie of Milo's innocence, the lie so well made that the reader would be excused for believing it, and the greater, more distant lie of this speech, in the form it is written in, never having been heard in court.
What can I say but praise Cicero and his rhetoric?
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374 reviews36 followers
January 28, 2012
Très intéressant : on relève bien la structure classique de la rhétorique, de nombreuses références historiques (Pompée/César), et des retournements de situations par Cicéron à l'avantage de Milon. J'ai parfois même trouvé ça drôle !
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November 24, 2023
Letto per la tesi ma visto che mi ha rubato il tempo che avrei voluto dedicare ad altri libri (iron flame sto parlando di te) lo aggiungo
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7 reviews
October 1, 2024
Sapere com’è andata a finire ha reso il tutto molto comico
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17 reviews1 follower
January 18, 2011
One of the most annoying things I had to read! He is so pompous and full of himself! A liar, a cunning politician and a clumsy pretentious writer. This particular speech is famous for having failed to rescue his mafioso friend Milo from going into exile for having killed his mafioso enemy, Clodius. Cicero was nervous, he stuttered and didn't deliver. Later, after Milo was exiled, he rewrote the defense and sent it to Milo. Milo was not impressed. Nor am I with Cicero's ego.
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November 16, 2010
Quamquam haec quidem iam tolerabilia videbantur, etsi aequabiliter in rem publicam, in privatos, in longinquos, in propinquos, in alienos, in suos inruebat, sed nescio quo modo usu iam obduruerat et percalluerat civitatis incredibilis patientia.
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