When is freedom a bad thing?

Posted on by Liv Yarrow

There are plenty of examples in Cicero’s constitutional writings of people being ‘too free’, but I this phrase in a public oration struck me a rather unusual (Pro Flaccio 72):

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The Freedom of the Greeks is usually something defended or given by the Romans, not disparaged…

Published by Liv Yarrow

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