Speeches: de Haruspicum Responsis,
pro Sestio, in Vatinium, pro Cælio, de
Provinciis Consularibus, pro Balbo.
Letters XCIV-CXV.
B.C. 55. Coss., Cn. Æt. 51. Elections at end of January
Pompeius Magnus II., by an interrex. Speech in Pisonem. The
M. Licinius Crassus II. de Oratore in three books. Cicero also
engaged on the poem de Suis Temporibus.
Gabinius (proconsul of Cilicia) restores
Ptolemy Auletes to the throne of Egypt
for an enormous bribe and without authority
from the senate.
Cæsar's first invasion of Britain.
Crassus starts for Syria before the end
of his consulship.
Letters CXVI-CXXIX.
B.C. 54. Coss., L. Æt. 52. Speeches: pro Plancio, pro
Domitius Ahenobarbus, Rabirio Postumo.
App. Claudius Pulcher.
Cæsar's second invasion of Britain, in
which Q. Cicero is serving with him.
Death of Iulia (September).
Cicero, much against his will, defends
Gabinius on a charge of peculation at the
request of Pompey.
Cicero writes the de Republica.
Riots preventing elections between the
parties of Clodius and Milo.
Quintus Cicero's gallant defence of his
camp in Gaul.
Letters CXXX-CLXIII.
B.C. 53. Coss., Cn. Æt. 53. Elections still prevented by
Domitius Calvinus, riots till April.
M. Valerius
Messalla. Fall of Crassus and his son at Carrhæ.
Cicero elected into the college of
augurs in place of the younger Crassus.
Elections for next year prevented by
riots.
Letters CLXV-CLXXVII.
B.C. 52. Coss., Cn. Æt. 54. No elections possible till
Pompeius Magnus, February 23rd.
sole consul
from February Clodius murdered on the Appian Way,
23rd to August January 17th.
31st; from Sep-
Trial and condemnation of Milo under
a new law brought in by Pompey.
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