Gaius Verres

(120 BC c.-43 BC)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Verres, Gaius, 1st cent. B.C. LBT ID: GaVerre VIAF ID: 34340716 LOC ID: nr94030462	B/BAP: -0120 DIED: -0043
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The Roman governor of Sicily whose rapaciousness was rendered notorious by Cicero in the Verrine Orations.
REFERENCES TO Gaius Verres: [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 15 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 55 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 3 Found 1: ¶ 9