Re: Mormon Zeezrom was historical Cicero

[Geiserik]

On 26 jun, 19:13, Geiserik <dejonghn...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Considering in 1 Nephi 13:28 the promised land as Israel and Canaan, all events in the BoM could be traced on the same date with the classical history writers.
>
> The horrible wars in Helaman and Alma > are no less than the
> Mithridatic and the Jewish wars with the Romans against Pontus, Judea
> and Parthia.Many famous Romans in the East could be indentified.
>
> Takes for instance Alma 10:31
> The lawyer of dirty affairs Zeezrom, who enriched himself by pitting
> the people against the Jews.(82bC) Americans like JS pronounce his
> name
> the same way as we Europeans do with Cicero, the famous roman Lawyer,
> Lawmaker, orator, student on Rhodes, Consul of Silica  and superstar
> in
> the process against Catalina (63bC)but also in defending later
> Flaccus, who was confiscating the Jewish temple dues in Rome.
>
>  L. Valerius Flaccus (d. 54 BC).
>  He served in Asia under his father, but fled to his uncle Gaius, who
> was in Gaul. He later served as military tribune in Cilicia, quaestor
> in Hispania under Piso, a legate of Metellus in Crete. As  urban
> praetor he was with Cicero in the Conspiracy of Catiline, and then
> governor in Asia. In 59 Cicero defended him in a speech. Flaccus was
> then a legate of a later Piso, in Macedonia. Retrieved from
> "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Valerius_Flaccus