Cicero Flashcards

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Father/ brother

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Marcus, quintus

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Born

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January 3rd 106BC

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Quaestor

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Age 30
Responsible for finance and logistics
Easy to steal money

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Tribunus plebis

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Plebeian only
At least a quaestor first
Power of unlimited veto

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Aedilis

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Age 32

In charge of public works and games.

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Praetor

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Imperium
Age 34 for patricians, 36 for plebeians
Serve as judges of the courts

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Propraetor

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Imperium

Governor of a provincial colony where no army was needed.

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Consul

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Age 42
Imperium
Head of state
Could punish absolutely outside the city

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Proconsul

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Governor in an area where an army was stationed

Term is 1-5 years

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Censor

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Ex consul for 18 months every 5 years

Organized census and could remove senators from the senate

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Moves to Rome

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98BC

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Joins army

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90BC

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Comes home

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87BC

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Scaevola

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Trains for 6 years as a lawyer after military service

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Series of cases that cause him to leave town because of conflict with Sulla

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84/80BC

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Arrives at Athens

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79BC and studies under Apollonius Molo

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Returns home from Athens

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77BC

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Elected quaestor

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76BC

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Prosecutes Verres

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70BC

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Elected Aedelis

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69BC

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Elected praetor urbanus

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67BC

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Runs for and elected consul

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64/63BC

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Cicero discovers the catilinaraian conspiracy

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October 63BC

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Awarded triumph

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November 63BC

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Bona Dea Scandal

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62BC

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Goes into exile

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59BC to Thessalonica

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Law exiling Cicero is repealed allowing him to return to the city.

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57BC

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Becomes proconsul of Asia Minor

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End of 52BC

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Cicero mysteriously divorces his wife

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46BC after 35 years of marriage

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Tullia his daughter dies from childbirth

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45BC Cicero is devastated

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Cicero dies

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December 7 43BC