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标题：Sema Karataş: Zwischen Bitten und Bestechen. Ambitus in der politischen Kultur der römischen Republik - Der Fall des Cn. Plancius
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作者：Cristina Rosillo-López
期刊名称：Sehepunkte : Rezensionsjournal für Geschichtswissenschaften
电子版ISSN：1618-6168
出版年度：2021
卷号：21
期号：3
语种：German
出版社：Herder-Institut, Institut für Zeitgeschichte
摘要：Rome, August-September 54 BCE. A 52-year-old man, clad in his toga, takes the stage in the middle of a court of justice, surrounded by judges, the two parties of the trial and the audience. The previous day, the great Hortensius had spoken; now Cicero was ready to defend Cn. Plancius, a homo novus, the son of an influential publicanus, who had been elected aedile in 55. One of his defeated competitors, M. Iuventius Laterensis, of consular ancestors on both sides of his family, had accused Plancius of electoral misconduct under the lex Licinia de sodaliciis, which had been passed by consul Crassus in 55. The law reflected the relationship between ambitus and vis, and between sodalitates and electoral misconduct. Cicero challenged Laterensis to prove that "Plancius had divided, enrolled, served as depository of bribes, made promises, divided up [the tribe members]" (Cic. Planc. 45: haec doce, haec profer, huc incumbe, Laterensis, decuriasse Plancium, conscripsisse, sequestrem fuisse, pronuntiasse, divisisse); such were the terms of the accusation.