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I'm John Batchel with Josiah Osgood.

His new book is Lawless Republic. The story of Cicero and the first century B.C.E. Roman Republic. And yet the Republic turned on money. And a man named Varus, Gaius Veras, became governor of Sicily, which was the breadbasket of Rome before they acquired

Egypt in 73 BC and stole everything he could get his hands on that he regarded as art,

everything, although you could say he borrowed it and didn't return it. By the time Cicero came to this story, the people of Sicily had had enough and moved a case against him in the Roman Forum.

The amazing thing to me, Professor, is that Cicero took it on because Veris is extremely well connected,

not only to all the members of the Senate in Rome,

but to Mattelis, who becomes the governor after Veris.

I want to say, what was Cicero thinking?

Where did he think he could go with this?

Because he's taking on billionaire.

Yeah, so normally Cicero defended those accused,

and of course that was a good way still to win fame,

but also earn favors.

And one thing that's sort of interesting about the Roman Republic

is prosecution could be regarded as a little bit

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