Re:The Life of a Lawyer in the Late Roman Republic
by rsynnott on Friday August 11, 2023 @09:06AM
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> "Lawyers" in Ancient Rome were generally patricians who owed assistance to their cliens.
Certainly by the late republic I'm not sure that it's true they were generally patricians? They were generally upper-class, certainly, often senatorial-class, but by then a lot of them (Cicero, say) would have been plebeians.
Certainly by the late republic I'm not sure that it's true they were generally patricians? They were generally upper-class, certainly, often senatorial-class, but by then a lot of them (Cicero, say) would have been plebeians.