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Valerius Maximus, Memorable Deeds And Sayings, 6.2.8

nan Helvius Mancia Formianus, the son of a freedman, in his old age accused L. Libo before the censors. In this dispute, when Pompey the Great reproached him with his low status, and his old age, and told him, that he was sent from the underworld to be an accuser; he replied, "You tell the truth, Pompey, for I come from the infernal regions to accuse Libo. But while I was there, I saw Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus all bloody and weeping; because being of a noble extraction, of an upright life and conduct, and a great patriot, he was put to death in the flower of his youth at your command. I saw there also M. Brutus, famous in the same manner, hacked and slaughtered, complaining that the same calamity befell him, first through your perfidy, and then by your cruelty. I saw Cn. Carbo, a keen defender of your youth and of your paternal property, in his third consulship, laden with those chains which you caused to be put upon him; and reproaching you, that contrary to all equity and justice, he was slain by you, a private Roman knight, when he held the greatest office in the commonwealth. I saw in the same condition, a man of praetorian rank, Perpenna, cursing your cruelty; and all of them with one voice bewailing their hard fate, that they should be killed without trial, under such a young executioner as you. It was lawful for a citizen of a municipal town, who still had a twang of his father's servitude, with an unbridled recklessness and an insufferable malice to call to mind the gaping wounds which had been received in the civil war, now grown dry with age. Therefore at that time he was very brave to reproach Pompey, and also very safe. But the even humbler rank of the next person does not permit us to extend this complaint any further.

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1. Cicero, De Domo Sua, 105 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 105. ad Volaterras in castra L. L ucii Sullae mors Sex. Rosci quadriduo quo is occisus est Chrysogono nuntiatur. quaeritur etiam nunc quis cum nuntium miserit? nonne perspicuum est eundem qui Ameriam? curat Chrysogonus ut eius bona veneant veneant χψ : veniant cett. statim; qui non norat hominem aut rem. at qui at qui atque σχ ei venit in mentem praedia concupiscere hominis ignoti quem omnino numquam viderat? Soletis, cum aliquid huiusce modi audistis audistis ς : auditis cett. , iudices, continuo dicere: ' necesse est aliquem dixisse municipem aut vicinum; ei plerumque indicant, per eos plerique produntur.' hic nihil est quod suspicione occupetis suspicione occupetis Madvig : suspicionem hoc putetis codd. : suspicionem hanc putetis Sylvius .
2. Cicero, De Lege Agraria, 3.4 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
3. Cicero, In Verrem, 2.1.9 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
4. Cicero, Post Reditum In Senatu, 26, 25 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 25. quid ego gloriosius meis posteris potui relinquere quam hoc, senatum iudicasse, qui civis me non defendisset, eum rem publicam salvam noluisse? itaque tantum vestra auctoritas, tantum eximia consulis dignitas valuit ut dedecus et flagitium dedecus et flagitium ε e : deus flagicium PB : omnis flag. Hs se committere putaret, si qui non veniret. idemque consul, cum illa incredibilis multitudo Romam et paene Italia ipsa venisset, vos frequentissimos in Capitolium convocavit. quo tempore quantam vim naturae bonitas haberet et et G ε : ut P1 : aut P2BHb ς vera nobilitas, intellegere potuistis. nam Q. Metellus, et inimicus et frater inimici, perspecta vestra voluntate omnia privata odia deposuit: quem P. Servilius, vir cum clarissimus tum vero optimus mihique amicissimus, et auctoritatis et orationis suae divina quadam gravitate ad sui generis communisque sanguinis facta virtutesque revocavit, ut haberet in consilio et fratrem ab inferis ab inferis secl. Lamb. , socium rerum mearum, et omnis Metellos, praestantissimos civis, paene ex Acheronte excitatos, in quibus Numidicum illum Metellum Metellum auct. Manut. del. Halm honestus omnibus sed luctuosus tamen Halmio auct. Muell : honestis omnibus ne (in Bt, sane G, om. Hbks ) luctuosus tandem P rell. praeter ε e (molestus omnibus ipsi ne luctuosus quidem) , cuius quondam de patria discessus honestus omnibus, sed luctuosus tamen visus est.
5. Cicero, Pro Milone, 75 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
6. Cicero, Pro Sestio, 130 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
7. Horace, Odes, 2.1.17 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
8. Propertius, Elegies, 4.11.51-4.11.52 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
9. Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, 12.10.61 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 12.10.61.  But he whose eloquence is like to some great torrent that rolls down rocks and "disdains a bridge" and carves out its own banks for itself, will sweep the judge from his feet, struggle as he may, and force him to go whither he bears him. This is the orator that will call the dead to life (as, for example, Cicero calls upon Appius Caecus); it is in his pages that his native land itself will cry aloud and at times address the orator himself, as it addresses Cicero in the speech delivered against Catiline in the senate.
10. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 40.54.3 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
11. Aquila Romanus, De Figuris Sententiarum Et Elocutionis, 3 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
annius milo,t.	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 135
augustus	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146
authority,submission to,resistance to	Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 165
caelius rufus,m.	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 135
carnifex / carnificina	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 68
cicero,pro caelio	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 135
cicero,pro milone	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 135
civil war	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146
claudius caecus,ap.	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 135
claudius pulcher,ap.	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 135
claudius sabinus,app.,abused by laetorius as carnifex	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 68
clodia	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 135, 146
clodius pulcher,p.,criticisms of cato	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 68
clodius pulcher,p.	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 135
cornelia	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146
cornelius cinna,l.	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146
cornelius scipio africanus (the elder),p.	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146
cruelty	Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 165
cynthia	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146
dyck,a.	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 135
fabulae praetextae	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 135
fas,and nefas	Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 165
flower,h.	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146
hallett,j.	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146
helvius mancia	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 68
helvius mancia formianus	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146
janan,m.	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146
johnson,w. r.	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146
laudatio,laudationes	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146
laudatio murdiae	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146
laudatio turiae,	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146
libertas (liberty)	Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 165
morality'	Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 165
mortuos ab inferis excitare	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 135, 146
necromancy	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 135
of	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 135
pompeius magnus,cn. (pompey),criticized by helvius mancia	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 68
pompey (cn. pompeius magnus,iii cos.	Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 165
propertius,,elegy	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146
regnum	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 68
richardson,l.,jr.	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146
salzman,m.	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 135
scars,reopening	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 68
servilius vatia isauricus,p.	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 135
servitus.	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 68
statuary	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146
tullius cicero,m. (cicero),abuses verres as carnifex	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 68
tullius cicero,m. (cicero),accused of crudelitas	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 68
valerius maximus	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 135
violent imagery,meanings of	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 68
warden,l.	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146
wiseman,p.	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 135
wounds,reopening	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 68
wyke,m.	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 146