M. TULLIUS CICERO, DOMUS
on the north-east side of the Palatine hill, over-
looking the forum,
in conspectu totius urbis (de domo 10 ; ef. 103,
114; pro Planeio 66; ad
Att. ii. 24. 3; Plut. Cie. 8). Cieero bought
this house in 62 B.C. for HS. 3,500,000 (ad
Fam. v. 6. 2 ;
Gell. xii. 12）
from Marcus Crassus (not P. Crassus as stated in Ps. Sall. in Cic. 2;
Ps. Cie. in Sail. 14, 20). It adjoined the
PORTICUS CATULI (q.v.), and
was built on the site previously occupied by the house of the tribune
M. Livius Drusus (
Vell. ii. 14). When Cicero was banished, Clodius
burned his house, enlarged the porticus of Catulus, and erected a shrine
of Libertas (de domo 62, 16; App.
BC ii. 15;
Vell. ii. 45; Plut. Cie. 33;
Cass.
Dio xxxviii. 17. 6). After Cicero's recall legal proceedings were
instituted, and he recovered the site, and damages sufficient to partially
rebuild the house (Cass. Dio xxxix. II and 20 ; adAtt. iv. I. 7, 2.5, 3.2).
The house afterwards belonged to L. Marcius Censorinus, consul in
39 B.C., and to Statilius Sisenna, consul in 16 A.D. (
Vell. ii. 14; HJ 58;
Gilb. iii. 418-9).
