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Accommodating former legal systems and Roman law: Cicero’s Rhetorical and Legal Viewpoint in the Verrine Orations

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This paper considers the legal relations between local communities and Roman authorities within the empire from a Roman point of view. It is mostly based on Cicero’s Verrine Orations, the accusation pronounced in 70 BCE before a repetundae court against Verres, a former governor of Sicily. This piece of judicial rhetoric gives us access to the kind of arguments which were suitable for a Roman audience and Roman readers as far as provincial autonomy was concerned. A study of a specific civil law procedure, the uadimonium procedure, shows how difficult it is to assess the degree of interaction between local and Roman law from a judicial source like the Verrines. Furthermore, local law appears to be, to a large extent, both a rhetorical and an ethical construct, to be interpreted in the context of the critical viewpoint on imperialism which was cautiously developed by Cicero as the accuser in the repetundae speech.
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Julien Dubouloz. Accommodating former legal systems and Roman law: Cicero’s Rhetorical and Legal Viewpoint in the Verrine Orations. K. Berthelot; N. Dohrmann; C. Nemo-Pekelman. Legal engagement. The reception of Roman law and tribunals by Jews and other inhabitants of the Empire, 579, Publications de l’École française de Rome, pp.47-68, 2021, Collection de l'École française de Rome, 978-2-7283-1464-5. ⟨10.4000/books.efr.9397⟩. ⟨halshs-03506553⟩
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