Avoiding the responsability : Cicero and the suppression of Catiline’s conspiracy

Author: Robinson, Arthur Wirt
Title: Avoiding the responsability : Cicero and the suppression of Catiline’s conspiracy
Review/Collection: "Syllecta classica", 5
Year edition: 1994
Pages: 43-51
Keywords: Biographie - Biografia - Biography, Histoire - Storia - History, Politique - Politica - Politics
Description: In Cicero's orations after his consulship, and especially in those after his exile, he often states or implies that the senate or others were responsible for putting down the conspiracy and omits or minimizes his own part in this action, evidently wishing to dissociate himself from the controversy surrounding it. [APh]
Link: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/458647/summary
Author initials: Robinson 1994