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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 74 74 Browse Search
M. Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares (ed. L. C. Purser) 10 10 Browse Search
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero 8 8 Browse Search
M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to Atticus (ed. L. C. Purser) 6 6 Browse Search
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E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill) 5 5 Browse Search
M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus (ed. L. C. Purser) 3 3 Browse Search
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero , Allen and Greenough's Edition. 3 3 Browse Search
J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge, M. Grant Daniell, Commentary on Caesar's Gallic War 3 3 Browse Search
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J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero , Allen and Greenough's Edition., Life of Cicero. (search)
s gone forever. He had never been a statesman, and now he had not the chance to be even a politician. From Cicero's recall to the breaking out of the Civil War (B.C. 56-49). Upon his return he delivered two famous speeches Post Reditum: 1. (in Senatu); 2. (ad Quirites). (one in the Senate and one before the people), in which he a measure which gave Pompey extraordinary powers over the provincial grain market, for the purpose of securing the city against scarcity of provisions. Next year (B.C. 56) he spoke strongly in favor of continuing Caesar's proconsular authority in Gaul. See the oration De Consularibus Provinciis. With Crassus, the third "triumvir," request of the powerful leaders. He secured the restoration of his property, Pro Domo Sua (B.C. 57). and defended Sestius, Pro P. Sestio, on a charge of assault (B.C. 56). who had been active in his recall. Toward the end of this period he also defended Milo for the murder of Clodius. B.C. 52. For the circumstances, see pp. 169, 1
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero, Allen and Greenough's Edition., section 40 (search)
bis: once for the attack on his house (sect. 38, above); the other occasion is unknown. et reo: Clodius, as aedile (B.C. 56), had laid a charge against Milo (dixit diem Miloni) of employing gladiators to bring about by intimidation the law for Cicero's recall. gravissimam . . . partem, a most important part in political affairs. fuit: see note on erat, sect. 33 (p. 185, l. 12). in scalarum tenebris, the stairway of a bookseller's shop, as Cicero says elsewhere (Phil. ii, 9). The affair took place B.C. 53, when Antony, at this time a friend of Cicero, was candidate for the quaestorship. nulla sua invidia, with no odium to himself: ยง 348, a (217, a); B. 243, 2; G. 304, N.2; 11.440, 2, N.2 (396, iii, N.2); H.-B. 354, d.