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In three years, Cicero fell from grace and found himself ridiculed and rejected by the Roman aristocracy he had toiled strenuously to become part of. When Clodius burned down his house on the Palatine Hill in 58 BC, the destruction of the symbolic marker of his political reputation dealt a great blow to Cicero’s ego. The following year, he returned from exile and fought to get his house back at public expense, detailed in De Domo Sua…

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The Domus, the Garden, and Cicero’s Expression of Iustitia