A Murder on the Appian Way

by Steven Saylor

  Claude Nicolet argues the point even more explicitly in The World of the Citizen in Republican Rome (University of California Press, 1988): “The intervention of Pompey’s troops was indeed prophetic: it sounded the knell of the free Republic and, by the same token, of Roman political and forensic eloquence. The Roman mob thought it had gained a victory by intimidating Cicero and driving Milo into exile; but all it had done was to prepare the way for civil war and thereby the Empire.”

  Most of my research was conducted at Doe Library and (somewhat surreptitiously) in the Classics Reading Room at the University of California at Berkeley. I want to express my personal thanks to Penni Kimmel for reading the manuscript; to Rick Solomon for various sorts of indulgence and inspiration; to Pat Urquhart, for his technical assistance with the map; to Terri Odom, for reading the galleys; and to my editor at St. Martin’s Press, Keith Kahla.

  Table of Contents

  A MURDER ON THEAPPIAN WAY

  CONTENTS

  A NOTE ON NAMES

  A NOTE ON THE HOURSOF THE ROMAN DAY

  PART ONERIOT

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  PART TWOROAD

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  PART THREEREX?

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  PART FOURRING

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  AUTHOR’S NOTE