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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 82 | 82 | Browse | Search |
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero | 8 | 8 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares (ed. L. C. Purser) | 5 | 5 | Browse | Search |
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome | 5 | 5 | Browse | Search |
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero , Allen and Greenough's Edition. | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
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M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 (ed. Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Cicero's Public Life and Contemporary Politics. (search)
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter VIII: ad Atticum 2.22 (search)
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter XXI: ad familiares 7.5 (search)
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)
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter XLII: ad familiares 16.11 (search)
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter XLIX: ad Atticum 9.11a (search)
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter LXV: ad familiares 6.6 (search)