Rome in Danger. Cicero's Process and Hannibal's Threat
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Historical novel. On the civil war between Caesar and Pompey and the dire consequences it had for Cicero. His arrest after being visited by the spirits of Scipios, fugitives from hell. Hannibal´s campaign in northern Italy. The annihilation of Carthage, the first genocide in history.
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Rome in Danger. Cicero's Process and Hannibal's Threat - Borja Loma Barrie
CHAPTER I
The process experienced by Marcus Tullius Cicero, the orator of the coppery glow, was rather mild, considering the traditional inexorable rigor of Roman justice, and almost close to courtesy, in a time characterized in the public life of Rome by scarce continence the even less subtlety and excessive use of force, murder and betrayal.
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Even though good manners of inhuman Roman justice apparatus did not prevent his imprisonment.
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Predominated at the time, paradoxically characterized by the recent military victory over Carthage, fear, resentment, contempt, arrogance and widespread abuse among Romans, including in relation to the allegedly most loved people, such as family members, schoolmates and comrades in the army.
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Such a set of feelings and emotions, perverse, causing fear and longing for death intimate gentlemen and commoners, it had been generated by political power, from where it spread through the city like a poisonous fluid impregnated all, with the exception of those furthest from the forums, baths or coliseums, such as prostitutes, slaves, lepers, the six pure vestals and bandits who, little by little, felt integrated, in a rare and bittersweet maelstrom of widespread confusion of mind, very similar, which suffered marginal themselves.
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Prostitutes, because demand for their services increased beyond measure, by blind men into the world, who rejected completely, except for the pleasures of sensuality, those who were given no real lubricity and anguish.
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Slaves, because they understood properly that those legally free men, citizens, were prisoners in an emotional social structure which could not escape and they were not even aware.
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Lepers, because gave news that the putrefaction of the spirit is even more harmful and corrupt life, that of the body.
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Vestals, because their difficult decision to purity and chastity in aeternum, previously adopted; produced inside of them, now, a comforting sense of human superiority over lubricious dogs, in which people had become.
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And bandits and criminals, finally, because their unique perception of other men and women like simple animal flesh to devour, had been massive and widespread among all, there were no substantial differences between the criminal conduct and that of citizens in general.
Indeed, strange circumstances, for that depravity had sprung from the hypocenter of the earth, inexplicably, like the Apollonian vapors, vertically, to the throne of the consul, just after the great victory of Emiliano Scipio in Carthage, a city that he razed, with the meticulous genocidal system, in which he indoctrinated Cato the Censor and grandson of Scipio Africanus, applied with his natural intelligence, discipline and judgment.
The martial triumph over the Carthaginians seemed that Rome had turned into divine curse. For its insanity. At least that's what he said, in Palatine´s grimy taverns, Cnneo Pudilex, perhaps the most important of the soothsayers of Rome, as he drank three wine amphoras.
And yet, even so dishonest period, Gaius Julius Caesar, eager to emulate throughout Alexander the Great, even in its magnificence with the vanquished, which was pathetically set T in the Roman, had shown with Senator Cicero, Pompey´s follower, since the dawn of the recently concluded civil war, was very condescending.
Even hugged him, as set foot in the Senate, after returning from Egypt with two heads, the Pompey beheaded by Potino, the regent eunuch, who exercised political power in the ancient kingdom of the Nile due to the low age Ptolemy XII ruling pharaoh, Cleopatra's brother; Pothinus and of itself, which had curtailed the head, very resolutely, at home and Alexandrian palace, irritated that barbarians like the Egyptians had dared to sully by the murder of a Roman knight, and with it, by extension, not only the Julia gens, for his daughter, also named Julia, who died in childbirth, was Pompey´s wife, but all of Rome.
Of course Julius Caesar was singularly gifted for dramatic spectacle, he loved passionately, provided that it was he who starred tragedy or farce. But never comedy. And, indeed, did not let a single opportunity in which he could act, before any audience, even the formed by children or slaves, elderly or lunatics, noble or barbarians, like a god, Jupiter omnipotent power over life, fatum death and people all.
It was also the contradiction made flesh. For while Caesar was pleased with the death of his irreconcilable enemy Pompey, he was equally befuddled by it. Potino apparent incoherence, regretted in a very special way.
And while Cesar understood, that the Senate should be the legal and essential basis of the State which would govern, for which even increased the number of senators to nine, creating in Rome a wicked uproar policy, unprecedented low, starring therefore those who believed with right to dignity and by those who, even flaunting, understood that this should be necessarily exclusive to a few eminent, he emptied it completely of power.
And it limited the prerogatives of the august institution, representative of the Roman people, to the simple and most banal record of office and documents; exerting himself an absolutist and dictatorial, clearly monarchical government, he did not listen to anything but his own intuitions and some other haruspex, from time to time and not all, with the exception of Pudilex, if he was not excessively drunk , as the conqueror of Gaul sniffed at him a special talent for his dark position, which related to the passion of the seer by destroying himself, a fact that, by not assumed empathy, subjugated Caesar, the new Rome´s populi magister.
Thus, the dictator chatted amiably with Cicero one day, as a parent of unspeakable kindness that suddenly in the doorway of her house to the son he believed forever lost in debauchery brothels, and next devised a subtle revenge he, for his allegiance to Pompey and the republican order, by action of a complainant brought the nefarious Publius Clodius.
This, a ruined patrician who had been placed under the shadow of Caesar on spurious grounds, and it was used by the humiliator Vercingetorix for certain ignominious labors, accused the pale and determined the