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government wanted people to know. In general, the loss of freedom of speech aggravated Titus
Labienus impelling him to voice his disapproval even more of the new monarchy. As even more time progressed, Augustus became even stricter until he finally created a new type of punishment for this "new crime" of voicing one's opinion. With this new type of punishment, depending on how guilty one was or how serious the crime one committed against the state was, either one or all of one's life works were to be burned at the stake. When the new law was first declared, even members of the Senate thought that was "an unusual way of inflicting punishment upon scholarship".
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against the monarchy that had taken over the Roman Empire. Continuously, people would go throughout the city of Rome and either publicly state or publish pamphlets with negative comments and accusations about the new emperor and monarchy. Titus
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Upon hearing the verdict that he was guilty of literary treason and that his entire library was sentenced to flames, Titus
Labienus decided to kill himself. He went to the mausoleum of his ancestors, walled himself up, and committed suicide, becoming the first Roman martyr. He refused his friends'
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Labienus, who began to feel the effects of the new law first because it was also illegal to even own, carry, or read any of the restricted material that was to be burned at the stake. His conflict with the government eventually led to his own trial (6 to 8 AD), the
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Labienus was considered unimportant, as an adult he garnered fame for his works as an historian and orator. At the time, Rome was a new monarchy, Augustus had assumed power, and there was a lot of animosity in the air between the people who were for and those who were
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Labienus. As an author he wanted the freedom to write what he wanted to write, not what the government wanted or would allow. And as a professor, he wanted to be able to teach the truth, not just what the Roman
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Although, at the time of his death, he thought the damage of the flames was irreversible and that all of his life's work was gone, many of his friends and fellow scholars risked their lives to save his works. Because of the risks they took, fifty years later his works were listed as standard
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pass over sections that were too discordant. Instead, he would allude to the missing information by saying that they were to be read after his death. Titus
Labienus was also recognized throughout Rome as an important member of the academic profession or "manus orator".
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offers to cremate his body for he was not going to let the fiery element that had devoured his works touch him. Through his death, he was able to send a message about censorship to both Augustus, the emperor of Rome, and to Roman citizens.
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them think about all of the other classic writers who if they had been alive during this would have also had their works burned. He caused classrooms to discuss and debate the implications of his trial. He even got his enemy,
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