Speech -  "Oratio Macri" (73 B.C.) - Sallust
Channel: David Rudmin
Date: 2021-07-03

Subtitles:  Latin or English 
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============= HISTORY =============
In 73 BC, the Optimates, led by the merciless Sulla, had just fought a brutal Civil War with the ascendant Populares, brutally crushing them in the battle of the Colline Gate, while unsurprisingly restricting the Plebeian Tribunes’ powers.  In this speech, the Plebeian Tribune Gaius Licinius Macer urges the popular assembly to reassert their traditional powers, a movement which would ultimately fail at the hands of men like Cicero,  thus precipitating the rise of a broader Popularist Revolution, under the first triumvirate, then eventually under Caesar.