Sextus Roscius
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Sextus Roscius, tried in Rome for parricide in 84 B.C.E., was defended successfully by the young Cicero in his first major litigation. The defense involved some risk for Cicero, since he accused Lucius Cornelius Chrysogonus, a freedman of Sulla, then dictator of Rome, of corruption and involvement in the crime.
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The murder of Sextus Roscius the Elder and the trial of his son are central to the plot of Steven Saylor's mystery novel, Roman Blood.
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