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