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I'm John Batchew with Professor Josiah Osgood's new book Lawless Republic,

and we're telling a wail of a story about one man's life, Cicero, born 106 BC, and died at the hands of,

really, a decision by Mark Antony.

We're going to get to him.

But we're right now with one of the most powerful and rich families on the Palatine Hill,

the Clorrii. And the upright son becomes corrupted by his romances and has now been condemned

by sacrilege trial and cannot hold a political office in the Senate. He can't rise to be a consul, which is what he wants to be.

So he goes another route.

He becomes at one of the ten tribunes.

What does that mean, Professor?

Yeah, so Clodius escaped.

He was damaged, but he wasn't actually convicted,

probably because of bribes that he had handed out to the right people.

So Cicero is in trouble now because Clodius wants revenge.

What Clodius decides to do is even though he came from a patrician family, he wants to run for what is the

Blabian office. This is an old office that the people of Rome had established, and it was

integrated into the political system, where you sort of defend popular interests.

Patricians weren't supposed to hold it.

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