Cæsar leaves Rome for Spain, December 1st.
Letters CCCCXLIX-DXXVIII.
B.C. 45. Dict. r. p. c., Æt. 61. Death of Tullia about the end
C. Iulius Cæsar of February.
III. Coss., C. Iulius
Cæsar IV. Cicero retires for some months to Astura,
sine coll. where he composes a Consolatio
which is not extant.
Victory of Cæsar at Munda, March 17th.
Q. Fabius Maximus, Cæsar returns to Rome early in
mort, C. Trebonius. October. His triumph.
C. Caninius Rebilus. Cicero composes the de Finibus, the
Academica—first in two books and then
in four.
Speech pro Deiotaro (before Cæsar).
Letters DXXIX-DCXC.
B.C. 44. Dictator Æt. 62. At the beginning of the year
r.p.g.c., C. Iulius Cicero employed in finishing the
Cæsar. Mag. Eq., Tusculan Disputations.
M. Æmilius Lepidus
III., C. Octavius, March 15th Cæsar murdered in the
Cn. Domitius senate-house.
Calvinus.
March 17th in a meeting of the senate
Cæsar's acta are confirmed.
In April Octavius (Augustus) arrives.
Coss., C. Iulius Antony causes the senate to alter the
Cæsar, occis., M. arrangements for the provinces made by
Antonius. Cæsar—so that finally Syria is assigned
to Dolabella instead of Cassius, Gallia
P. Cornelius Dolabella. Cisalpina to himself instead of Decimus
Brutus, and Macedonia to Gaius Antonius,
his brother, instead of M. Brutus.
Cicero keeps away from Rome till the
end of August, and composes de Natura
Deorum, de Divinatione, de Fato, de Senectute,
de Amicitia, de Gloria, de Officiis (to
his son), Topica. He resolved to go to
Athens to visit his son, but was delayed
by bad weather, gave up his purpose, and
returned to Rome, August 31st.
September 2nd, delivers the first speech
against M. Antonius (First Philippic).
Antony replies on September 19th,
whereupon Cicero writes the Second
Philippic, which was never delivered.
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