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Mastermind 2016 - Robert Harris > Imperium > Flashcards

Imperium Flashcards

1
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Part One

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Senator - 79-70BC

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2
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Narrator of Cicero books

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Tiro

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3
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How long was Tiro Cicero’s secretary

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36 years

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4
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What has Tiro developed to assist his work

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Shorthand

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5
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How old is Tiro when he writes the books

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Nearly 100

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6
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Paper Tiro writes on

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Hieratica

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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

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8
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Cicero family estate

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Arpinium

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9
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Where did Cicero study Philosophy in Athens

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The Academy (Aristotle)

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10
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Leading exponent of the Asiatic school

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Quintus HORTENTIUS Hortalus

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11
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Hortentius’s nickname

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The Dancing Master

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12
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Who does Cicero travel to Rhodes to consult

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Apollonius Molon

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13
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Molon: “Nothing dries more quickly …”

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“… than a tear”

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14
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Where does Molon take Cicero to practice

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The beach

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15
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Cicero’s younger brother

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Quintus

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16
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Cicero’s cousin

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Lucius

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17
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Cicero’s two great friends

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Servius, Atticus

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18
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Entry qualification to Senate

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31 years old, a million sesterces

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19
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Who does Cicero marry for money

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Terentia

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20
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Cicero’s first government post

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Quaestor, Sicily

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21
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Which port does Cicero travel from Sicily via

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Puteoli

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22
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Who humiliates Cicero on the quay at Puleoli

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Verres

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23
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Cicero’s daughter

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Tullia - Tulliola

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24
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Cicero’s junior secretaries

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Sositheus and Laurea

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25
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Cicero’s steward

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Eros

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26
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Terentia’s business manager

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Philotimus

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27
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Cicero’s household philospher

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Diodotus and Stoic

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28
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Cicero’s name derived from …

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Chickpea

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29
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Visitor to Cicero with case against Verres

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Sthenius of Thermae

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30
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Chief executioner of Siciliy

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Sextius

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31
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Sthenius’s stolen treasures

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Corinthian and Delian bronzes, Myron’s Discus Thrower, Polycleitus’s Spear Bearer, silver cups by Mentor

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32
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Marcus Cicero is the second best lawyer in Rome. Who’s the first

A

Hortensius

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33
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Who does Cicero defend from the charge of paricide

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Caius POPILLIUS Laenas

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34
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How many senators

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600

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35
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How many praetors

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8

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36
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How many consuls

A

2

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37
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Most senators are …

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Pedarii - men who vote with their feet

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38
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Who is putting down the Slave Revolt (Spartacus)

A

Marcus Crassus

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39
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Who is fighting in Spain

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Pompey the Great

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40
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Who is winning victories against King Mithradates

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Lucius Lucullus

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41
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Consul’s chair

A

Curule

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42
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Who had built the National Archive six years earlier

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Catulus

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43
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Catulus blamed suicide of his father on …

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Gratidianus (distant relative of Cicero’s)

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44
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Who killed Gratidianus

A

Sergius Cataline

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45
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Quintus’s wife

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Pomponia (Atticus’s sister)

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46
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What is Servius’s advice to Sthenius

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Suicide

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47
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One power left to tribunes

A

Potestas auxilii ferendi - protection to private persons against unjust decisions of magistrates

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48
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“You will never conquer Rome is you cannot rule …”

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“… your wife”

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49
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Headquarters of the Tribunes

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Basilica Porcia

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50
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How many tribunes

A

Ten

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51
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Speaker in the Basilica Porcia

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Cato

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52
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What is Cato arguing for

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A pillar

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53
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Age qualification for consulship

A

42

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54
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Who raids Cicero’s house looking for Sthenius

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Timarchides, freedman of Verres

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55
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Homeland of both Pompey and Afrianus

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Picenum

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56
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Crassus’s son

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Publius

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57
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How many slaves does Crassus crucify

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6,000 - 350 miles, 117 paces

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58
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What does Crassus have to settle for instead of a triumph

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An Ovation

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59
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Where does voting, etc, take place

A

Fields of Mars

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60
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Where does Pompey set up his HQ

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Villa Publica

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61
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Pompey to hold games dedicated to

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Hercules

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62
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Crassus to provide free food for …

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three months

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63
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Cicero’s tribe

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Cornelia

64
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Cicero’s election slogan

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Justice and Reform

65
Q

Lepida marries

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Scipio Nasica

66
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Pompey’s son

A

Gnaeus

67
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Verres’s wedding present to Scipio

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Myron bronze of Apollo - shrine of Aesculapius at Agrigentum

68
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Cato’s half sister

A

Servilia

69
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Cato’s philosopher

A

Antipater the Stoic

70
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Servilia’s advice to Cicero on Verres’s prosecution

A

Drop it

71
Q

Extortion court meets for the trial of Verres

A

Temple of Castor and Pollux

72
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How abstained from choosing Verres’s prosecutor

A

Catulus

73
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Governor of Sicily

A

Lucius Meteelus

74
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Young man who works for Cicero during trial

A

Giaus Frugi

75
Q

How much does Cicero try to borrow from Terentia

A

100,000 st - gets half

76
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Where does Publius Gavius say he’s escaped from

A

Stone Quarries in Syracuse

77
Q

Pirate Captain in alliance with Verres

A

Heracleo

78
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What does Cicero raid in Syracuse

A

Offices of the revenue collectors

79
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Director of the revenue collectors

A

Carpinatius

80
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Former financial director who has kept a set of records

A

Vibius

81
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Who built the stone quarries

A

Dionysus the Tyrant

82
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Sicilian word edikaiothesan

A

Death penalty

83
Q

Name of fictitious moneylender

A

Gaius Verrucius - Verres

84
Q

How many days does Cicero take to set out his prosecution of Verres

A

10

85
Q

Who enters the senate at the same time Cicero is elected aedile

A

Julius Caesar

86
Q

Caesar claims decent from …

A

Venus

87
Q

Verres defence lawyer

A

Hortensias

88
Q

Junior counsel for Verres

A

Scipio Nasica - Cato’s love rival

89
Q

Limit of Cornelian law

A

48 witnesses

90
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Cicero’s first witness

A

Sthenius of Thermae

91
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Who was the first advocate Sthenius went to for advice

A

Hortensias

92
Q

What did Publius Gavius cry as he was flogged

A

I am a Roman citizen

93
Q

Who persuades Cicero to settle with Verres

A

Pompey

94
Q

What does Cicero eventually accept

A

1.5m

95
Q

What did Verres give Hortensias

A

Ivory sphinx

96
Q

Part two

A

Praetorian: 68-64BC

97
Q

Aediles headquarters

A

Temple of Ceres

98
Q

Festival of Ceres tradition

A

Foxes with torches

99
Q

Cicero’s mansion in the Alban Hills

A

Tusculum

100
Q

Cicero’s Tusculum house has once belonged to …

A

Sulla

101
Q

Pompey’s crony who becomes a tribune

A

Gabinius

102
Q

Cicero’s gift to Pompey

A

Letter inthe hand of Zeno

103
Q

How does Lucius take his life

A

Hemlock

104
Q

Where do they take Lucius’s ashes

A

Arpinium

105
Q

Cicero’s mother

A

Helvia

106
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Who attacks Ostia while Cicero is in Arpinium

A

Pirates

107
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Pompey’s third wife

A

Mucia

108
Q

Pompey’s daughter

A

Pompeia

109
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Destroyed at Ostia

A

19 consular war triremes

110
Q

Pompey divides Mediterranean into how many zones

A

Fifteen

111
Q

Who places the bill proposing Imperium to defeat the pirates

A

Gabinius

112
Q

Who does Tiro catch with Pompey’s wife Mucia

A

Julius Ceasar

113
Q

Where did the Rostra get its name

A

Six ships battering rams or beaks, captured from the carthiginians

114
Q

How long an imperium does the lex Gabinia grant

A

Three years

115
Q

Who does Cicero want Pompey to emulate when he refuses command

A

Cincinnatus

116
Q

Crassus’s “shadow”, mocked by Catullus for affected speech

A

Quintus Arrius

117
Q

The only lasting glory is on the page or

A

The battlefield

118
Q

Historical figure Crassus compares Cicero to

A

Tiberius Gracchus - agrarian bill

119
Q

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always …

A

a child

120
Q

Where was Tiberius Gracchus murdered

A

Temple of Fides

121
Q

Word Pompey writes on Cicero’s dispatch

A

Agreed

122
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Tribune who decides not to veto lex Gabinia

A

Trebellius

123
Q

Clamour on the passing of lex Gabinia kills …

A

a raven

124
Q

Which court does Cicero win as preator

A

Extortion

125
Q

Who does Tullia marry first

A

Frugi

126
Q

How long does it take Pompey to wipe out the pirate threat

A

49 days

127
Q

Where does Terentia go to pray each day

A

Temple of the Good Goddess - Aventine Hill

128
Q

New apprentice

A

Marcus Caelius Rufus

129
Q

Games of Apollo held by

A

Hybrida - Urban Praetor

130
Q

Vestal Virgin Cateline is accused of seducing

A

Fabia - Terentia’s half sister

131
Q

Province Cateline governs

A

Africa

132
Q

Who decides to prosecute Cataline for his governorship of Africa

A

Publius Clodius Pulcher

133
Q

Cicero’s son

A

Marcus

134
Q

Who eventually defends Catiline

A

Tarquatus

135
Q

Catiline nearly found guilty - ie …

A

aquitted per infamiam

136
Q

Where does Cicero go campaigning for the consulship

A

Nearer Gaul

137
Q

Where does Caelius go after Cicero

A

Crassus

138
Q

Provincial capital of Nearer Gaul

A

Placentia

139
Q

Atticus a devote follower of …

A

Epicurus - ataraxia, freedom from disturbance

140
Q

Hybrida running for consulship with …

A

Catiline

141
Q

Ranunculus’s nickname

A

Tadpole

142
Q

Name given to Pompey’s house on the Esquiline

A

domus rostra

143
Q

Salinatus’s bar

A

Bacchante

144
Q

Who does Rufus smuggle into Crassus’s house to overhear his meeting

A

Tiro

145
Q

What is on the tapestry behind which Tiro hides behind in Crassus’s house

A

Diana bringing down a stag with a spear

146
Q

First item of Crassus’s agenda

A

Egypt

147
Q

Where are the public lands Crassus intends to give away

A

Campagnia

148
Q

How much has Crassus spent on the elections

A

20m

149
Q

How big is the commission proposed by Crassus’s coup

A

10

150
Q

Who does Cicero send the transcript of Crassus’s meeting to

A

Hortensias

151
Q

Where does Cicero meet the aristocrats with evidence of Crassus’s scheme

A

Palace of Lucullus

152
Q

Who demands Tiro passes a shorthand test

A

Catulus

153
Q

Flag hoisted during election

A

Red, over the Janiculum Hill

154
Q

How many centuries does Cicero have voting for his consulship

A

193

155
Q

Age of Cicero when consul

A

42

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