consulship—quod cives indemnatos necavisset
(see vol. i., p. 22).
Cicero declines a province.
Birth of Octavius (afterwards Augustus),
September 23rd.
B.C. 62. Coss., D. Æt. 44. Quintus Cicero prætor. C.
Iunius Silanus, L. Iulius Cæsar prætor.
Licinius Murena.
Speeches pro Cornelio Sulla and pro
Archia Poeta.
Pompey reaches Italy on his return
from the East at the end of the year.
P. Clodius said to have penetrated
Cæsar's house in female disguise when
Cæsar's wife and other matrons were
celebrating the mysteries of the Bona Dea.
Letters XII-XV.
B.C. 61. Coss., M. Æt. 45. Trial and acquittal of P. Clodius.
Pupius Piso Calpurnius,
M. Valerius Messalla Quintus Cicero proprætor of Asia.
Niger.
Pompey celebrates a triumph for the
Mithradatic war (September 29th and
30th).
Cæsar proprætor in Spain.
Letters XVI-XXII.
B.C. 60. Coss., L. Æt. 46. Cicero writes a history of his
Afranius, Q. Cæcilius consulship in Greek (vol. i., p. 57), and
Metellus. also a poem in three books.
P. Clodius, after his quæstorship in
Africa, seeks adoption into a plebeian
gens in order to get the tribuneship.
Cæsar, returning from Spain to stand
for the consulship, is prevented from
triumphing by opposition of the senate.
Pompey is discontented with the senate
for not confirming his acta. The two form
with Crassus the informal agreement
known as the first triumvirate.
Letters XXIV-XXIX.
B.C. 59. Coss., C. Æt. 47. Pompey marries Iulia.
Iulius Cæsar, M.
Calpurnius Bibulus. Cicero opposed to Cæsar's agrarian law,
refuses to be one of the vigintiviri for
assigning lands, and declines a legatio
offered by Cæsar.
Cæsar's laws passed in spite of the
opposition of his colleague Bibulus.
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