A collection of powerful public speeches that display masterful rhetoric applied to legal defenses, political debates and crisis moments of the late Roman Republic; the orations combine forensic argument, moral exhortation and sharp invective to defend clients, prosecute corrupt officials and rally the senate and populace, while revealing the speaker’s tactical use of style, character appeals and appeals to civic virtue amid intense factional conflict—an indispensable record of Roman law, politics and persuasive technique.