tember 1st, Q. Speech pro Milone.
Cæcilius Metellus
Pius Scipio. Cicero writes de optima genere Oratorum
and begins the de Legibus.
Quintus comes home from Gaul.
Letters CLXXVIII-CLXXXI.
B.C. 51. Coss., Servius Æt. 55. Cicero proconsul in Cilicia,
Sulpicius Rufus, accompanied by his brother Quintus, his
M. Claudius nephew Quintus, and his son Marcus.
Marcellus.
Tullia married to Dolabella.
Discussions at Rome as to whether
Cæsar shall stand for the consulship without
giving up his province and army.
Alarm of an invasion of Syria by the
Parthians. Two legions withdrawn from
Cæsar for Syria, but not sent.
Growing distrust between Pompey and
Cæsar.
Letters CLXXXII-CCXXXVI.
B.C. 50. Coss., L. Æt. 56. Cicero quits his province on
Æmilius Paullus, July 31st, lands at Brundisium, November
C. Claudius 25th, and arrives at Rome, January 4th
Marcellus (C.f.). of the next year.
Gaius Curio, tribune from December
10th, B.C. 51, accepts a large bribe from
Cæsar and maintains his cause in the
senate, preventing an appointment of a
successor to him in Gaul. On laying
down his tribuneship, December 9th, B.C.
50, he goes at once to Cæsar at Ravenna
and urges him to enter Italy in arms.
Letters CCXXVII-CCXCIX.
B.C. 49. Coss., C. Æt. 57. Cæsar crosses the Rubicon
Claudius Marcellus after the senate had rejected his proposal,
(M.f.), L. conveyed by Curio on January 1st, and expelled
Cornelius Lentulus the tribunes Antonius and Cassius,
Crus. who vetoed the decree ordering Cæsar
to surrender his province. Cæsar in Spain
Dictator sine Magistro after March: Antony in charge of Italy.
Equitum com. Cicero at first accepts the command of the
hab. et fer. Lat., C. Campanian shore, but on Pompey and the
Iulius Cæsar. consuls abandoning Rome, he stayed at
Formiæ, hesitating whether to join Pompey,
who left Italy on March 17th. He finally
did so in June and was at Pompey's headquarters
in Epirus for the rest of the year.
Letters CCC-CCCCIII.
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