HermitshCicero by Claude

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Rostra

the Rostra

also: rostris, rostra, the Rostra

The speaker's platform in the Forum Romanum, faced with the prows (rostra) of captured warships. In Fam. 12.3 Antony sets up there a statue inscribed to Caesar 'to a parent most well-deserving.'

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Mentioned in 31 works (40 total)

Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book V speeches · 1 mention
For Aulus Cluentius speeches · 2 mentions
For Gaius Rabirius on a Charge of High Treason speeches · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 1.14 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 2.24 letters · 1 mention
Ad Quintum Fratrem 1.2 letters · 1 mention
For Lucius Flaccus speeches · 1 mention
On His House speeches · 1 mention
Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.3 letters · 1 mention
On the Responses of the Haruspices speeches · 2 mentions
Against Vatinius speeches · 3 mentions
For Lucius Cornelius Balbus speeches · 1 mention
For Marcus Caelius speeches · 1 mention
For Publius Sestius speeches · 3 mentions
On the Orator rhetoric · 1 mention
Against Piso speeches · 1 mention
For Gaius Rabirius Postumus speeches · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 8.1 letters · 1 mention
Brutus rhetoric · 2 mentions
For King Deiotarus speeches · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 12.3 letters · 1 mention
Cato the Elder, On Old Age philosophy · 1 mention
On Duties philosophy · 1 mention
Second Philippic speeches · 1 mention
Third Philippic speeches · 1 mention
Ad M. Brutum 1.3 letters · 1 mention
Ad M. Brutum 1.15 letters · 1 mention
Thirteenth Philippic speeches · 1 mention
Philippica XIV speeches · 1 mention
Fifth Philippic speeches · 1 mention
Ninth Philippic speeches · 3 mentions

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