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Gaius Rabirius was a
senator who was involved in the death of
Lucius Appuleius Saturninus.
Titus Labienus (whose uncle had lost his life among the followers of Saturninus on that occasion) was put up by
Julius Caesar to accuse Rabirius of having been implicated in the murder. Caesar's real object was to warn the
Senate against interference by force with popular movements, to uphold the sovereignty of the people and the inviolability of the person of the tribunes, at the time of the conspiracy of
Lucius Sergius Catilina. The obsolete accusation of
perduellio was revived, and the case was heard before Caesar and his cousin Lucius Julius Caesar as commissioners specially appointed (
duoviri perduellionis). Rabirius was condemned, and the people, to whom the accused had exercised the right of appeal, were on the point of ratifying the decision, when
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer pulled down the military flag from the
Janiculum, which was equivalent to the dissolution of the assembly. Caesar's object having been attained, the matter was then allowed to drop. The defense was taken by Marcus Tullius Cicero, consul at the time; the speech is extant:
Pro Rabirio reo perduellionis.
A nephew
Gaius Rabirius Postumus was also defended by Cicero.
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