Wanderings in the Roman campagna . d of the Republic this section of theTusculan Hills had become the Lincolns Inn Fields,the Lawyers Corner of the Campagna, so manymembers of the bar having bought property and builtvillas and cottages near the springs of the Aqua Julia,in order that they might discuss their cases and helpone another with texts or advice before driving to townand a])pearing in court. By referring to the map onthe opposite page this clustering of villas around thatof Cicero — like planets round a central sun — will bemade clear to the reader, better than by any description;and
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . d of the Republic this section of theTusculan Hills had become the Lincolns Inn Fields,the Lawyers Corner of the Campagna, so manymembers of the bar having bought property and builtvillas and cottages near the springs of the Aqua Julia,in order that they might discuss their cases and helpone another with texts or advice before driving to townand a])pearing in court. By referring to the map onthe opposite page this clustering of villas around thatof Cicero — like planets round a central sun — will bemade clear to the reader, better than by any description;and he will understand how easy it was for those leadingmembers of the bar to keep in contact, and exchangetlieir views l)oth on politics and on points of law. Thusin tlie case against Verres, Cicero appeared for the pro-secution and his neighl)or Hortensius for the other occasions they were colleagues in the defenceof Rabirius, charged with the murder of a tribune ofthe plebs; of Murena and Sulla, accused of bribery in. MAP OF THE DISTRICT OF TUSCULUM Comprising- Ciceros villa at the CoUe delle Ginestre, as well as the most importantancient and modern ones in the territory of Frascati and Grottaferrata 250 WANDERINGS IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA canvassing- for the consulship; of Flaccus and Sextius,and Scaurus and Milo, for other offences. Niebuhrsays of them: At the time of Sulhis death, b. c. 78,Cicero was twenty-eight years old, and had alreadyspoken several times and claimed great was older than he and not free from . He had his share of all the depravities of his age,and it is an undoubted fact that he sold his own con-victions, a thing from which Cicero was altogether reading the magnificent orations we find that Cicerocounted more upon emotional effects than upon legalevidence. He was not a lawyer in the present sense ofthe term. The title of orator had a wider applicationamong the Latins than with us. With us it means apublic ma
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