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grbs-16173	Tempest, Kathryn	Meidias and the Mute Witness: Cicero’s Debt to Demosthenes in the Verrines Reconsidered	2019	27	.pdf	application/pdf	10511	361	56	Even though there was no standardization in ancient education, connections were there to be made, and by and large Cicero could expect some of his contemporaries to make them.56 In so doing, Cicero could activate what Pierre Bourdieu has termed “academic capital”—the rich repository of knowledge with which educated Romans distinguished themselves from their less-privileged counterparts.57 Thus Cicero could hope both to flatter the intelligence of his knowledgeable listeners whilst also projecting his own ethos as a man of culture and learning.58 As Meidias’ preferred method of travel serves to underscore his effeminacy and self- indulgence,44 so too Verres is made to stand in antithesis to the 40 At II.5.1–4 Cicero tells us that Verres’ defence team planned to make much of Verres’ military achievements, which were perhaps not as insignifi- cant as Cicero would have us believe: Verres seems to have protected Sicily with some success during the Spartacan revolt (Sall.	cache/grbs-16173.pdf	txt/grbs-16173.txt