World’s Famous Orations, Vol. II: Rome

by William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey, Various

29 chapters7h 31mEnglish1906

About this book

In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey compiled a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period, ranging from Ancient Greece to their contemporary United States. This is the second volume in this series, in which the most famous speeches of great Roman statesmen are collected, including Cicero, Seneca, and Julius Caesar. - Summary by Carolin

Chapters (29)

1Publius Cornelius Scipio - To His Army Before Battle

626

2Hannibal - Address to His Soldiers

575

3Cato the Censor - In Support of the Oppian Law

981

4Scipio Africanus Major - To His Mutinous Troops

718

5The Gracchi - I - Fragments by Tiberius Gracchus

380

6The Gracchi - II - Fragments by Caius Gracchus

248

7Caius Memmius - On a Corrupt Oligarchy

575

8Caius Marius - On Being Accused of a Low Origin

794

9Cicero - I - The First Oration Against Verres

1976

10Cicero - II - In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law, part 1

1019

11Cicero - II - In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law, part 2

1181

12Cicero - III - The First Oration Against Catiline

2060

13Cicero - IV - The Second Oration Against Catiline

1867

14Cicero - V - In Behalf of Archias the Poet

1629

15Cicero - VI - The First Oration Against Mark Antony

2305

16Cicero - VII - The Second Oration Against Mark Antony, part 1

1678

17Cicero - VII - The Second Oration Against Mark Antony, part 2

1773

18Mark Anthony - His Oration Over the Dead Body of Caesar

2181

19Catiline - I - An Exhortation to Conspiracy

435

20Catiline - II - To His Army Before His Defeat in Battle

258

21Julius Caesar - On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators

877

22Cato the Younger - On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators

873

23Germanicus - I - To His Mutinous Troops

295

24Germanicus - II - To His Friends When Dying

141

25Seneca - To Nero When in Disfavor

342

26Otho - I - On Becoming Emperor

359

27Otho - II - To His Soldiers in Rome

379

28Otho - III - To His Soldiers Before Committing Suicide

249

29Agricola - To His Army in Scotland

334

World’s Famous Orations, Vol. II: Rome

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Chapters (29)

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