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Convicted felon
‘Are we keeping the public out or the convicted felon in?’

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The crude tirades of Cicero the demagogue

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It is rare to read a book about Cicero that likens its hero to a demagogue. Rome’s prosecutor of conspiracy and corruption in the last years of the Republic is seen more commonly as a toga-draped crusader for virtue. Was he also a ranter steeped in violence, crude character-assassination, tendentious storytelling and racial stereotypes? Yes,

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