#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

4902.328 - 4932.241 Gregory Aldrete

And citizens, for example, early on, you had to be tried at Rome if you were accused of something. And there's this very famous moment in Sicily where an abusive governor who's corrupt is punishing a citizen arbitrarily. And this person cries out, meaning, I am a Roman citizen. And it really was this hugely loaded statement that that gives me protections. It is wrong for you to do this to me.