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Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Cicero's Public Life and Contemporary Politics. (search)
nica during the latter's exile. 21. The violence and disorder, with their accompaniment of bribery and political intrigue, Q.fr. 3.3.2. which had prevailed almost uninterruptedly from midsummer of the year 54 B.C., reached its climax in Jan., 52 B.C., in a riotous contest between the followers of Clodius and Milo, which resulted in the death of the former,Ascon. in Milon. p.32; Dio Cass. 40.48-50. and, as a last resort, Pompey was elected sole consul on the 24th of the intercalary month of59 B.C. Herzog, 1. p.552. n. 2. By the lex Pompeia Licinia, passed in 55 B.C. (§ 20), Caesar's term of office was extended for a period of five years, — probably, therefore, to Mar. 1, 49 B.C. Watson, pp.287-290. Special legislation of the year 52 B.C. had allowed Caesar to sue, in 49 B.C., for the consulship, without personally attending the canvass (§ 2 i). His successor in the provinces would not naturally begin his term of office until Jan. 1, 48 B.C., and in accordance with the regular
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter VIII: ad Atticum 2.22 (search)
ratic treatment of the Catilinarian conspiracy. cum . . passus esset: Pompey actually took some part in the proceedings of the comitia curiata when Clodius was adopted; cf. Att. 2.12.1. fidem recepisse, etc.: 'both Clodius and Appius have given him (Pompey) a promise not to attack me.' Recipio in this sense is colloquial. The full expression is in me recipio. Appium: Appius Claudius Pulcher, the brother of Clodius, had been Cicero's friend until the quarrel with Clodius occurred. He was in 52 B.C. Cicero's predecessor as governor of Cilicia. The 13 letters of Bk. 3 ad Fam., are addressed to him. multa contra : (sc. dixisse): cf. Intr. 95. The verb of saying is most frequently omitted, as here, in reporting the words of another. in causis: in this year Cicero delivered orations in behalf of C. Antonius, of A. Thermus, and of L. Flaccus. Of these a portion of the oration for Flaccus is preserved. occurritur: men run to meet me when I appear upon the street. expedita, etc.: Cicero in
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter XXI: ad familiares 7.5 (search)
ddressed to him. sustulimus manus: a gesture of surprise. invitatu: apparently used nowhere else. Parallel forms, however, as Tyrrell remarks, are involatus (Ep. LXV. 7), reflatus (Att. 12.2.1), itus (Att. 15.5.3). mi Caesar: cf. mi Pomponi, Ep. X. n non Romano, not with that overworked phrase of but in the (hearty) Roman fashion. What the 'overworked phrase' was, or for what purpose Cicero wrote to Caesar concerning Milo, is unknown. Milo wished to be a candidate for the consulship for 52 B.C. , and Cicero may have tried to secure for him Caesar's support, or at least his neutrality. For more Romano, cf. ego te Balbo, cum ad vos proficiscetur, more Romano commendabo, Ep. XXVI. 3. See also Ep. XXIV. 3. familiam ducit, he leads the profession, sc. as concerns memory and knowledge of jurisprudence. Trebatius was a special legal adviser of Augustus; cf. Justin. Inst. 2.25. tribunatum: it was the fashion for young men of good family at Rome to go out to the provinces with the title o
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter XXXI: ad familiares 8.1 (search)
Letter XXXI: ad familiares 8.1 Rome, about May 24, 51 B.C. M. Caelius Rufus was born about 85 B.C. , and came to Rome when fifteen or sixteen years of age to study law and politics. He sympathized with Catiline, but took no active part in the conspiracy. In 52 B.C. as tribune he vigorously supported the aristocratic cause, but in later life he went over to Caesar. In 51 B.C. , when his letters to Cicero begin, Caelius was a candidate for the curule aedileship. In January, 49, he opposed the senate, and fled with Curio to Caesar's camp. Disappointed with the 'spoils' which fell to his share, he joined Milo in an uprising in southern Italy, and was put to death by Caesar's troops in 48 B.C. In the social world his intimacy with Clodia (Ep. VIII.5) gave him great notoriety. The wit and beauty of Caelius attracted this Palatine Medea, and the banquets and revels at Rome and Baiae, in which Caelius and Clodia were the central figures, were the talk of Rome. At last they quarrelled,
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter XXXV: ad Atticum 6.1 (search)
in connection with Athens, although he cannot endure the thought of having his name attached to some one of the famous statues of other men in Athens, a practice which some Romans had followed. mysteria : the festival of the Bona Dea, which occurred in May. The mention of Bona dea brings up to Cicero's mind the celebrated sacrilege of Clodius (cf. Ep. V.), with its long train of disasters for him, and leads him to date his letter from the day of Clodius's murder by Milo. To this event Cicero jestingly gives the name of pugna Leuctrica, for, as Greece had been freed from the tyranny of the Spartans by the battle of Leuctra, so Rome was relieved of the domination of its tyrant Clodius by the street-fight in which he fell. Cf. Att. 5.13.1 Ephesum venimus a. d. XI Kal. Sext. sexagesimo et quingentesimo post pugnam Bovillanam (Clodius was killed at Bovillae). Clodius was murdered Jan. 18, 52 B.C. , so that the date of this letter would be Feb. 20, 50 B.C. (cf. Schmidt, Briefw. p.76).
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter XLII: ad familiares 16.11 (search)
n. 4, 49 B.C. (cf. 2), but, being anxious to obtain a triumph, remained without the city. This enabled him to avoid participating in the exciting debates which took place in the senate Jan. 1-2 and 5-6, and left him free to negotiate for peace between Caesar and Pompey. On Jan. 1 Curio, Caesar's representative, laid before the senate a proposition to the effect that Caesar should be allowed to sue for the consulship while absent from the city, in accordance with the special law passed in 52 B.C. granting him that privilege (cf. Intr. 26), or if it should be considered necessary for him to give up his army and provinces, that Pompey should be required to do the same. Although this document was read in the senate, the consuls refused to allow a vote upon it, and after fiery speeches by Lentulus, Scipio, and others, it was voted uti ante certam diem (July 1, 49) Caesar exercitum dimittat; si non faciat, eum adversus rem publicam facturum videri (Caes. B. C. 1.2). After consultations
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter XLIX: ad Atticum 9.11a (search)
2.2; 4.14.2; Vell. Paterc. 2.48.5. belli: Cicero is thinking of the fact that he had not accompanied the Pompeians in their flight. Furthermore, he had done practically nothing to levy recruits for the Pompeians in Campania. Cf. nihil fugam, Ep. XLV.5n. While Cicero's statement in the text seems to be true, it does not harmonize with the impression which he sought to convey to Pompey a month earlier; cf. Att. 8.11B.2. See also Att. 7.14.2. beneficio: with reference to the law passed in 52 B.C. giving Caesar the right to sue for the consulship while absent from the city. Cf. Ep. XLII. introd. note, and Intr. 26. aliquid impertias temporis: for Cicero's comments on this phrase, see Att. 8.9. 1. tuo beneficio: sc. in not forcing him to give up his neutrality, and thus losing a chance to help Pompey. pius: sc. in remembering the duty he owed to his old friend Pompey. ad tuam fidem: Caesar steadily maintained that he desired peace. per te conservari: i.e. that I be not constrained
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter LXV: ad familiares 6.6 (search)
ompey. eundum in Hispaniam censui: the province of Spain, which Pompey had received at the close of his second consulship, in 55 B.C. , for a period of five years, was granted to him for five years longer at the close of his third consulship, in 52 B.C. While retaining the province, Pompey stayed, however, in Italy,--a course of action the illegality of which laid him open to the attacks of the Caesarians; and Cicero, in advising that Pompey should go to Spain, would have been acting in the inPompey in the Civil War until the battle of Pharsalus was fought, and had then gone into voluntary banishment to Mytilene. He was pardoned by Caesar; cf. Fam. 4.7 and 4.9. tot condemnati : cf. Caes. B.C. 3.1 nonnullos ambitus Pompeia lege (of 52 B.C. ) damnatos illis temporibus, quibus in urbe praesidia legionum Pompeius habuerat in integrum restituit. Cf. also Cic. Att. 10.4.8; Fam. 15.19.3; Suet. Jul.41. illa: explained by the following oratio obliqua. te, si explorata victoria, etc., if