Res Publica Conquassata: Readings on the Fall of the Roman Republic - Paperbackby Frank J. Groten (Editor), James K. Finn (Editor) Eyewitness accounts of the collapse of the Roman republic, including selections from the correspondence of the great orator Marcus Cicero and Caesar's narrative episodes of the civil war. For students of intermediate and advanced Latin. Containing readings from eyewitness accounts of the collapse of the Roman republic, Res Publica Conquassata (The Republic Shattered) relates Julius Caesar's invasion