Verres

Public career

Verres returned to Rome in 70 BC, and in the same year, at the request of the Sicilians, Marcus Tullius Cicero prosecuted him: Cicero later published the prosecution speeches as the Verrine Orations. Verres entrusted his defence to a very renowned orator, Quintus Hortensius, and he had the sympathy and support of several of the leading Roman patricians.