The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. II

Rome (218 B.C.–84 A.D.)

Two millennia of Western Civilization come into focus through these 281 masterpieces delivered by 213 rhetoricians.

Contents

 NEW YORK: FUNK AND WAGNALLS, 1906
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2002

Publius Cornelius Scipio

To His Army Before Battle

Hannibal

Address to His Soldiers

Cato the Censor

In Support of the Oppian Law

Scipio Africanus Major

To His Mutinous Troops

The Gracchi

I. Fragments by Tiberius Gracchus

II. Fragments by Caius Gracchus

Caius Memmius

On a Corrupt Oligarchy

Caius Marius

On Being Accused of a Low Origin

Cicero

I. The First Oration Against Verres

II. In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law

III. The First Oration Against Catiline

IV. The Second Oration Against Catiline

V. In Behalf of Archias the Poet

VI. The First Oration Against Mark Antony

VII. The Second Oration Against Mark Antony

Mark Antony

His Oration Over the Dead Body of Cæsar

Catiline

I. An Exhortation to Conspiracy

II. To His Army Before His Defeat in Battle

Julius Cæsar

On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators

Cato the Younger

On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators

Germanicus

I. To His Mutinous Troops

II. To His Friends When Dying

Seneca

To Nero When in Disfavor

Otho

I. On Becoming Emperor

II. To His Soldiers in Rome

III. To His Soldiers Before Committing Suicide

Agricola

To His Army in Scotland