TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword 7

Preface 9

LEGAL AND RHETORIC BACKGROUND OF THE SPEECH 13

I. The historical background and structure of the speech 13

I. 1. The historical background of the oratio 13
I. 2. The structure of the oratio 17

II. Quaestio de ambitu 19

II. 1. The development of quaestiones 19
II. 2. Crimen ambitus 23

II. 3. The role of associations and clients in the elections 26

III. Career of Lucius Licinius Murena and the res militaris

in Corpus Ciceronianum 31

III. 1. Lucius Licinius Murena 31

III. 2. Res militaris in Corpus Ciceronianum 32

IV. Career of Servius Sulpicius Rufus and the iurisprudentia

in Corpus Ciceronianum 33

IV. 1. Servius Sulpicius Rufus 33

IV. 2. Iurisprudentia in Corpus Ciceronianum 39

V. The theory of the perfectus orator 43

VI. Humor as means of rhetoric in Cicero 49

VI. 1. The theory of humour in Corpus Ciceronianum 49
VI. 2. Humour and irony in Pro Murena 52

ON PRO MURENA 26-27 63

I. Manum conserere 63

II. Verbality as the cardinal point of ius sacrum 68

II. 1. The concept of fatum 68
II. 2. The dedicatio of the Ops Opifera Temple 70II. 3. The verbal aspect of the interpretation of

prodigium 72
II. 4. Parallels between excantatio and evocatio 73

III. Festuca and hasta 80

III. 1. Hasta and imperium 80
III. 2. Hasta Martis 87

III. 3. The fasces of the lictores as symbol of power 92

IV. Legis actio sacramento in rem as duellum sacrum 98

IV. 1. Paralells between legis actio sacramento and ius fetiale 98
IV. 2. Paralells between legis actio sacramento and ordalium

in Casina of Plautus 103
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V. Engagement and Marriage 109

V. 1. On the forms of engagement 109

V. 2. Conventio in manum and marriage ceremonies 114

VI. De uxore in manu 123

VI. 1. Relation between the uxor in manu and the agnatio 123
VI. 2. The uxor in manu and the iudicium domesticum 125

VI. 3. Divortium and repudium 132

VII. Interpretatio, summum ius and aequitas 136

VII. 1. The term of interpretatio 136
VII. 2. Summum ius summa iniuria 140

VII. 3. De aequitate 147

CONCLUSIONS 153

ABBREVIATIONS 157

I. Abbreviations of Antique Sources 157

II. Bibliographical Abbreviations 162

INDEX SOURCES 173

EPITOMA 193