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RABIRIUS
RABIRIUS, GAIUS

RABIRIUS, See also:
GAIUS
GAIUS , a See also:

ROMAN

Roman senator, who was defended (63 B.c.) by See also:

CICERO

Cicero in a speech still extant. Nearly See also:

FORTY

forty years after the See also:

DEATH

death of L. Appuleius See also:

SATURNINUS, LUCIUS APPULEIUS

Saturninus, See also:

Titus See also:

LABIENUS

Labienus (whose See also:

UNCLE

uncle had lost his See also:

LIFE

life among the followers of Saturninus on that occasion) was put up by See also:

Caesar to accuse Rabirius of having been implicated in the See also:

MURDER

murder. Caesar's real See also:

OBJECT

object was to warn the See also:

SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

Senate against interference by force with popular movements, to uphold the See also:

SOVEREIGNTY

sovereignty of the See also:

PEOPLE

people and the inviolability of the See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person of the tribunes. The obsolete See also:

ACCUSATION (Lat. accusatio, accusare, to challenge to a causa, a suit or trial at law)

accusation of perduellio was revived, and the See also:

case was heard before See also:

JULIUS

Julius and See also:

LUCIUS

Lucius Caesar as commissioners specially appointed (See also:

DUOVIRI

duoviri perduellionis). Rabirius was condemned, and the people, to whom the accused had exercised the right of See also:

APPEAL

appeal, were on the point of ratifying the decision, when See also:

METELLUS

Metellus Celer pulled down the military See also:

FLAG (or " FLAGGE," a common Teutonic word in this sense, but apparently first recorded in English)

flag from the Janiculum, which was See also:

EQUIVALENT

equivalent to the See also:

DISSOLUTION (from Lat. dissolvere, to break up into parts)

dissolution of the See also:

ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

assembly. Caesar's object having been attained, the See also:

MATTER

matter was then allowed to drop. A See also:

NEPHEW

nephew, known as C. RABIRIUS POSTUMUS, was also defended by Cicero (54 B.C.) in the extant speech See also:

PRO

Pro Rabirio Postumo, when charged with See also:

EXTORTION (Lat. extorsio, from extorquere, to twist out, to take away by force)

extortion in See also:

EGYPT

Egypt and complicity with Aulus See also:

GABINIUS, AULUS

Gabinius (q.v.). See Cicero, Pro Rabirio, ed. W. E.

Heitland (1882) ; Dio See also:

Cassius, See also:

XXXVII

xxxvii. 26–28; H. Putsche, Uber das genus judicii der Rede Ciceros pro C. Rabirio (See also:

JENA

Jena, 1881); O. Schulthess, Der Prozess See also:

DES

des C. Rabirius (See also:

FRAUENFELD

Frauenfeld, 1891).

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