Imperium Flashcards
1
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Part One
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Senator - 79-70BC
2
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Narrator of Cicero books
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Tiro
3
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How long was Tiro Cicero’s secretary
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36 years
4
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What has Tiro developed to assist his work
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Shorthand
5
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How old is Tiro when he writes the books
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Nearly 100
6
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Paper Tiro writes on
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Hieratica
7
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Meaning of Imperium
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Power of life and death, as vested by the state in an individual
8
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Cicero family estate
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Arpinium
9
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Where did Cicero study Philosophy in Athens
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The Academy (Aristotle)
10
Q
Leading exponent of the Asiatic school
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Quintus HORTENTIUS Hortalus
11
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Hortentius’s nickname
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The Dancing Master
12
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Who does Cicero travel to Rhodes to consult
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Apollonius Molon
13
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Molon: “Nothing dries more quickly …”
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“… than a tear”
14
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Where does Molon take Cicero to practice
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The beach
15
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Cicero’s younger brother
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Quintus
16
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Cicero’s cousin
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Lucius
17
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Cicero’s two great friends
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Servius, Atticus
18
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Entry qualification to Senate
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31 years old, a million sesterces
19
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Who does Cicero marry for money
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Terentia
20
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Cicero’s first government post
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Quaestor, Sicily
21
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Which port does Cicero travel from Sicily via
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Puteoli
22
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Who humiliates Cicero on the quay at Puleoli
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Verres
23
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Cicero’s daughter
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Tullia - Tulliola
24
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Cicero’s junior secretaries
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Sositheus and Laurea
25
Cicero's steward
Eros
26
Terentia's business manager
Philotimus
27
Cicero's household philospher
Diodotus and Stoic
28
Cicero's name derived from ...
Chickpea
29
Visitor to Cicero with case against Verres
Sthenius of Thermae
30
Chief executioner of Siciliy
Sextius
31
Sthenius's stolen treasures
Corinthian and Delian bronzes, Myron's Discus Thrower, Polycleitus's Spear Bearer, silver cups by Mentor
32
Marcus Cicero is the second best lawyer in Rome. Who's the first
Hortensius
33
Who does Cicero defend from the charge of paricide
Caius POPILLIUS Laenas
34
How many senators
600
35
How many praetors
8
36
How many consuls
2
37
Most senators are ...
Pedarii - men who vote with their feet
38
Who is putting down the Slave Revolt (Spartacus)
Marcus Crassus
39
Who is fighting in Spain
Pompey the Great
40
Who is winning victories against King Mithradates
Lucius Lucullus
41
Consul's chair
Curule
42
Who had built the National Archive six years earlier
Catulus
43
Catulus blamed suicide of his father on ...
Gratidianus (distant relative of Cicero's)
44
Who killed Gratidianus
Sergius Cataline
45
Quintus's wife
Pomponia (Atticus's sister)
46
What is Servius's advice to Sthenius
Suicide
47
One power left to tribunes
Potestas auxilii ferendi - protection to private persons against unjust decisions of magistrates
48
"You will never conquer Rome is you cannot rule ..."
"... your wife"
49
Headquarters of the Tribunes
Basilica Porcia
50
How many tribunes
Ten
51
Speaker in the Basilica Porcia
Cato
52
What is Cato arguing for
A pillar
53
Age qualification for consulship
42
54
Who raids Cicero's house looking for Sthenius
Timarchides, freedman of Verres
55
Homeland of both Pompey and Afrianus
Picenum
56
Crassus's son
Publius
57
How many slaves does Crassus crucify
6,000 - 350 miles, 117 paces
58
What does Crassus have to settle for instead of a triumph
An Ovation
59
Where does voting, etc, take place
Fields of Mars
60
Where does Pompey set up his HQ
Villa Publica
61
Pompey to hold games dedicated to
Hercules
62
Crassus to provide free food for ...
three months
63
Cicero's tribe
Cornelia
64
Cicero's election slogan
Justice and Reform
65
Lepida marries
Scipio Nasica
66
Pompey's son
Gnaeus
67
Verres's wedding present to Scipio
Myron bronze of Apollo - shrine of Aesculapius at Agrigentum
68
Cato's half sister
Servilia
69
Cato's philosopher
Antipater the Stoic
70
Servilia's advice to Cicero on Verres's prosecution
Drop it
71
Extortion court meets for the trial of Verres
Temple of Castor and Pollux
72
How abstained from choosing Verres's prosecutor
Catulus
73
Governor of Sicily
Lucius Meteelus
74
Young man who works for Cicero during trial
Giaus Frugi
75
How much does Cicero try to borrow from Terentia
100,000 st - gets half
76
Where does Publius Gavius say he's escaped from
Stone Quarries in Syracuse
77
Pirate Captain in alliance with Verres
Heracleo
78
What does Cicero raid in Syracuse
Offices of the revenue collectors
79
Director of the revenue collectors
Carpinatius
80
Former financial director who has kept a set of records
Vibius
81
Who built the stone quarries
Dionysus the Tyrant
82
Sicilian word edikaiothesan
Death penalty
83
Name of fictitious moneylender
Gaius Verrucius - Verres
84
How many days does Cicero take to set out his prosecution of Verres
10
85
Who enters the senate at the same time Cicero is elected aedile
Julius Caesar
86
Caesar claims decent from ...
Venus
87
Verres defence lawyer
Hortensias
88
Junior counsel for Verres
Scipio Nasica - Cato's love rival
89
Limit of Cornelian law
48 witnesses
90
Cicero's first witness
Sthenius of Thermae
91
Who was the first advocate Sthenius went to for advice
Hortensias
92
What did Publius Gavius cry as he was flogged
I am a Roman citizen
93
Who persuades Cicero to settle with Verres
Pompey
94
What does Cicero eventually accept
1.5m
95
What did Verres give Hortensias
Ivory sphinx
96
Part two
Praetorian: 68-64BC
97
Aediles headquarters
Temple of Ceres
98
Festival of Ceres tradition
Foxes with torches
99
Cicero's mansion in the Alban Hills
Tusculum
100
Cicero's Tusculum house has once belonged to ...
Sulla
101
Pompey's crony who becomes a tribune
Gabinius
102
Cicero's gift to Pompey
Letter inthe hand of Zeno
103
How does Lucius take his life
Hemlock
104
Where do they take Lucius's ashes
Arpinium
105
Cicero's mother
Helvia
106
Who attacks Ostia while Cicero is in Arpinium
Pirates
107
Pompey's third wife
Mucia
108
Pompey's daughter
Pompeia
109
Destroyed at Ostia
19 consular war triremes
110
Pompey divides Mediterranean into how many zones
Fifteen
111
Who places the bill proposing Imperium to defeat the pirates
Gabinius
112
Who does Tiro catch with Pompey's wife Mucia
Julius Ceasar
113
Where did the Rostra get its name
Six ships battering rams or beaks, captured from the carthiginians
114
How long an imperium does the lex Gabinia grant
Three years
115
Who does Cicero want Pompey to emulate when he refuses command
Cincinnatus
116
Crassus's "shadow", mocked by Catullus for affected speech
Quintus Arrius
117
The only lasting glory is on the page or
The battlefield
118
Historical figure Crassus compares Cicero to
Tiberius Gracchus - agrarian bill
119
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always ...
a child
120
Where was Tiberius Gracchus murdered
Temple of Fides
121
Word Pompey writes on Cicero's dispatch
Agreed
122
Tribune who decides not to veto lex Gabinia
Trebellius
123
Clamour on the passing of lex Gabinia kills ...
a raven
124
Which court does Cicero win as preator
Extortion
125
Who does Tullia marry first
Frugi
126
How long does it take Pompey to wipe out the pirate threat
49 days
127
Where does Terentia go to pray each day
Temple of the Good Goddess - Aventine Hill
128
New apprentice
Marcus Caelius Rufus
129
Games of Apollo held by
Hybrida - Urban Praetor
130
Vestal Virgin Cateline is accused of seducing
Fabia - Terentia's half sister
131
Province Cateline governs
Africa
132
Who decides to prosecute Cataline for his governorship of Africa
Publius Clodius Pulcher
133
Cicero's son
Marcus
134
Who eventually defends Catiline
Tarquatus
135
Catiline nearly found guilty - ie ...
aquitted per infamiam
136
Where does Cicero go campaigning for the consulship
Nearer Gaul
137
Where does Caelius go after Cicero
Crassus
138
Provincial capital of Nearer Gaul
Placentia
139
Atticus a devote follower of ...
Epicurus - ataraxia, freedom from disturbance
140
Hybrida running for consulship with ...
Catiline
141
Ranunculus's nickname
Tadpole
142
Name given to Pompey's house on the Esquiline
domus rostra
143
Salinatus's bar
Bacchante
144
Who does Rufus smuggle into Crassus's house to overhear his meeting
Tiro
145
What is on the tapestry behind which Tiro hides behind in Crassus's house
Diana bringing down a stag with a spear
146
First item of Crassus's agenda
Egypt
147
Where are the public lands Crassus intends to give away
Campagnia
148
How much has Crassus spent on the elections
20m
149
How big is the commission proposed by Crassus's coup
10
150
Who does Cicero send the transcript of Crassus's meeting to
Hortensias
151
Where does Cicero meet the aristocrats with evidence of Crassus's scheme
Palace of Lucullus
152
Who demands Tiro passes a shorthand test
Catulus
153
Flag hoisted during election
Red, over the Janiculum Hill
154
How many centuries does Cicero have voting for his consulship
193
155
Age of Cicero when consul
42
