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RABIRIUS, GAIUS

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 773 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PYR-RAY
RABIRIUS, GAIUS , a Roman senator, who was defended (63 B.c.) by Cicero in a speech still extant. Nearly
forty
  years after the death of L. Appuleius Saturninus, Titus Labienus (whose uncle had lost his
life
  among the followers of Saturninus on that occasion) was put up by Caesar to accuse Rabirius of having been implicated in the murder. Caesar's real
object
  was to warn the Senate against interference by force with popular movements, to uphold the
sovereignty
  of the
people
  and the inviolability of the person of the tribunes. The obsolete accusation of perduellio was revived, and the case was heard before
Julius
  and Lucius Caesar as commissioners specially appointed (duoviri perduellionis). Rabirius was condemned, and the
people
 , to whom the accused had exercised the right of
appeal
 , were on the point of ratifying the decision, when Metellus Celer pulled down the military flag from the Janiculum, which was equivalent to the dissolution of the assembly. Caesar's
object
  having been attained, the matter was then allowed to drop.
A nephew, known as C. RABIRIUS POSTUMUS, was also defended by Cicero (54 B.C.) in the extant speech Pro Rabirio Postumo, when charged with
extortion
  in
Egypt
  and complicity with Aulus Gabinius (q.v.).
See Cicero, Pro Rabirio, ed. W. E. Heitland (1882) ; Dio
Cassius
 , xxxvii. 2628; H. Putsche, Uber das genus judicii der Rede Ciceros pro C. Rabirio (Jena, 1881); O. Schulthess, Der Prozess des C. Rabirius (Frauenfeld, 1891).


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