B.C. 82. Coss., C. Æt. 24. The dictatorship of Sulla.
Marius, Cn. Papirius Cruel proscriptions. Gnæus Pompeius
Carbo III. Magnus distinguishes himself in the cause
of Sulla. Cicero again attends the lectures
of Molon, who came to Rome on a
political mission (Brut. § 312).
B.C. 81. Coss., M. Æt. 25. Sulla's legislation. Pompey
Tullius Decula, celebrates a triumph for his campaign in
Cn. Cornelius Dolabella. Africa over the king of Numidia.
Cicero's first extant speech pro P.
Quinctio.
B.C. 80. Coss., L. Æt. 26. Speech pro Sext. Roscio
Cornelius Sulla Amerino on a charge of parricide.
II., Q. Cæcilius
Metellus Pius. Cilicia made a Roman province.
B.C. 79. Coss., P. Æt. 27. Abdication of Sulla.
Servilius Vatia
Isauricus, App. Cicero delivers a speech in defence of
Claudius Pulcher. the freedom of an Arretine woman against
Cotta, which is not extant. He then sets
out on a tour in Greece and Asia. At
Athens he attends the lectures of Antiochus
of Ascalon, head of the Fifth
Academy, and the Epicureans Phædrus
and Zeno. He was accompanied by his
brother Quintus and his cousin Lucius
(de Fin. i. § 6; v. § 1), and finding Atticus
there was with him initiated in the Eleusinian
mysteries (de Leg. ii. § 36).
B.C. 78. Coss., M. Æt. 28. Death of Sulla.
Æmilius Lepidus,
Q. Lutatius Catulus. Cicero travels in Asia, where he was
intimate with Menippus of Stratonice,
Dionysius of Magnesia, Æschylus of Cnidus,
Xenocles of Adramyttium—celebrated
rhetoricians (see his criticism on
Asiatic oratory, Brut. §§ 51, 325; Orat.
§ 27). He then goes to Rhodes and again
attends the lectures of Molon (Brut. §
315) and Posidonius (de Fin. i. § 6).
B.C. 77. Coss., Decimus Æt. 29. Cicero returns to Rome. He
Iunius Brutus, says that he came back much improved
Mamilius Æmilius as an orator—non modo exercitatior sed
Lepidus Livianus. prope mutatus (Brut. § 316).
He marries Terentia.
Pompey is sent against Sertorius.
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