Imperium - full deck Flashcards
Part One
Senator - 79-70BC
Urbem, urbem, mi Rufe, cole et in ista luce vibe
“Rome! Stick to Rome, my dear fellow, and live in the limelight” - Letter to Caelius, 26 June 50BC
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
How old were Tiro and Cicero when Tiro enters Cicero’s service
24 and 27
Cicero family estate
Arpinium
Cicero’s listeners in Arpinium would call him …
The Scholar or The Greek
Where do Cicero and Tiro sail for Greece from?
Brindisium
What year do Cicero and Tiro sail for Greece
Consulship of Servilius Vatia and Claudius Pulcher - 675
Where did Cicero study Philosophy in Athens
The Academy (Aristotle)
Famous Stoic lecturing in Athens
Antiochus of Ascalon
Three principles of Stiocism
Virtue sufficient for happiness, nothing except virtue is good, emotions are not to be trusted
Dominant school of rhetoric
Asiatic school - elaborate and flowery
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
Where was Molon originally from
Alabanda
Molon: “Nothing dries more quickly …”
“… than a tear”
Where does Molon take Cicero to practice
The beach
Domosthenes: “Only three things matter:”
“Delivery, delivery and delivery”
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
Terential’s half sister
Vestal virgin
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 house in Rome
Esquiline Hill
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
What do Sicilians call Verres
The Boar with Blood on his Snout
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
Who accuses Sthenius of forgery
Agathinus - client of Verres
Marcus Cicero is the second best lawyer in Rome. Who’s the first
Hortensius
Cicero’s legal textbooks
Hostilius Precedents in Pleading, Manilius Conditions of Sale
Who does Cicero defend from the charge of paricide
Caius POPILLIUS Laenas
Presiding consul for November
Gellius Publicola
How many senators
600
How many praetors
8
How many consuls
2
Open air lobby outside senate
Senaculum
Most senators are …
Pedarii - men who vote with their feet
Three Metellus brothers
Quintus, Lucius, Marcus
Two elderly ex-consuls
Catulus and Isauricus
Catulus’s sister married to
Hortensius
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
Catulus’s greatx5 grandfather
Triumphed over Hamilcar, First Punic War
Whose consulship did Catulus enter the senate in
Claudius Pulcher and Marcus Perperna
When is the last hour of the business day
When the sun drops west of the Maenian Column
Consul’s chair
Curule
Where does Cicero send Tiro to consult Sicily’s accounts
The National Archive
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)
Praetor of the extortion court until January
Hortentius
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
Mural on Basilica Porcia
Defeat of the Carthiginians
Speaker in the Basilica Porcia
Cato
What is Cato arguing for
A pillar
Tribune Cicero deals with for Sthenius
Lollius Palicanus
When do Tribunes start their term
December 10th
Palicanus’s house
Aventine Hill
Age qualification for consulship
42
Pompey’s platform for consulship
Full restoration of tribunician power
Palicanus’s artwork
Representations of Pompey
Who raids Cicero’s house looking for Sthenius
Timarchides, freedman of Verres
Where is Sthenius’s bolthole
Argiletum - Terentia’s tenemant block
Pompey’s tame praetor
Lucius Afranius
Homeland of both Pompey and Afrianus
Picenum
Palicanus’s daghter
Lollia
Lollia married to
Gabinius - another Pompey lieutenant
Scinnius calls Crassus …
The most dangerous bull in the herd
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
Age qualification for aedile
36
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
Not genius that takes a man to the top, but
Perseverence
Two more sicilians
Heraclius of Syracuse, Epicrates of Bidis
Lawyer defending Sthenius in Sicily
Giaus Claudius - Verres’s business manager
Cicero’s tribe
Cornelia
Cicero’s election slogan
Justice and Reform
Cato wants to marry
Aemilia Lepida - 16, his cousin
Lepida marries
Scipio Nasica
Nasica means …
Pointed nose
Nasica is adopted son of
Metellus Pius, Pontifex Maximus
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
Servilius’s older broter
Caepio - engaged to Hortensius’s daughter
Servilia’s advice to Cicero on Verres’s prosecution
Drop it
Who has rebuilt the Temple of Jupiter
Catulus
Pompey’s speech to Senate written by …
Varro
New consuls preside over
Latin Festival, Alban Mount
Extortion court meets for the trial of Verres
Temple of Castor and Pollux
Praetor of the extortion court
Aciliius Glabrio
Glabrio’s former wife
Aemilia - divorced, then married Pompey
Who also applies to prosecute Verres
Caecilius Niger
How long does Glabrio adjourn Verres’s trial for
110 days
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
When does Cicero leave for Siciliy
Ides of January - last day Festival of Nymphs
Temple at Velia
Apollo Oulius - God of Healing
Where does Cicero land in Sicily
Messana
Welcoming citizens at Messane
Basiliscus and Percennius
Roman citizen crucified in Messana for spying
Publius Gavius
Where does Publius Gavius say he’s escaped from
Stone Quarries in Syracuse
Goddess stolen from shrine in Agrigentum
Ceres
Four towns of Syracuse
Achradina, Tycha, Neapolis and The Island
Tomb Cicero had found in Syracuse
Archimedes - cylinder and sphere
Lodgings in Syracuse
Lucius Flavius
Pirate Captain in alliance with Verres
Heracleo
Spanish banker beheaded in Syracuse
Lucius Herennius
What does Cicero raid in Syracuse
Offices of the revenue collectors
Public holiday Cicero times his raid for
Terminalia
Director of the revenue collectors
Carpinatius
Former financial director who has kept a set of records
Vibius
Where are the crews of “spy ships” imprisoned
Stone quarries
Who built the stone quarries
Dionysus the Tyrant
Sicilian word edikaiothesan
Death penalty
Most senior senator in Syracuse
Diodorus
Theft from the temple of Minerva
27 portraits
Name of fictitious moneylender
Gaius Verrucius - Verres
When does Cicero return to Rome
Ides of March
How many Sicilians are brought to Rome to give evidence
about 100
How many days does Cicero take to set out his prosecution of Verres
10
How many aediles
4
Who enters the senate at the same time Cicero is elected aedile
Julius Caesar
Where had Caesar gone to study rhetoric on Cicero’s recommendation
Rhodes - Appolonius Molon
Caesar claims decent from …
Venus
Which tribe finally elects Cicero as aedile
Falerna
Verres defence lawyer
Hortensias
Junior counsel for Verres
Scipio Nasica - Cato’s love rival
Limit of Cornelian law
48 witnesses
” … will never convict any man, however guilty, if he has sufficient …”
Money
How many days does Cicero take to put the case against Verres
10
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
Where does Verres flee to
Massilia (Marseilles)
Hortensias’s offer from Verres
1m sesterces
Who persuades Cicero to settle with Verres
Pompey
What does Cicero eventually accept
1.5m
What did Verres give Hortensias
Ivory sphinx
Conquests of Lucullus
Tigranes, Nisibisis
Part two
Praetorian: 68-64BC
Eloquence that does not startle I do not consider eloquence
Cicero
Aediles headquarters
Temple of Ceres
Festival of Ceres tradition
Foxes with torches
Cicero’s nicknames
The Scholar, The Greek
Cicero’s mansion in the Alban Hills
Tusculum
Cicero’s neighbours in Tusculum
Catulus, Hortensias
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
Gabinius’s father in law
Palucanus
Governor of Gaul, friend of Pompey’s, defened by Cicero
Marcus Fonteius
Gaulish chief bringing prosecution against Fonteius
Induciomarus
How does Lucius take his life
Hemlock
Where do they take Lucius’s ashes
Arpinium
Who dies while they are on the way to Arpinium
Cicero’s father
25th November sacred to
Proserpina, Queen of Hades
Cicero’s mother
Helvia
River near Arpinium
Fibrenus
Who attacks Ostia while Cicero is in Arpinium
Pirates
Pompey’s third wife
Mucia
Pompey’s son
Gnaeus
Pompey’s daughter
Pompeia
Destroyed at Ostia
19 consular war triremes
Seized at Ostia
Two preators
Kidnapped from Misenum
Lady Antonia
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 accuses Pompey of setting himself up as a second Romulus
Piso
Who are Crassus’s tame tribunes, ready to veto the lex Gabinia
Roscius and Trebellius
Elder brother of Cato, recently died in the East
Caepio
Who does Cicero want Pompey to emulate when he refuses command
Cincinnatus
What does Terentia call Pompey
The Prince of Picenum
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
Cloak of a proconsul on active service
Paludamentum
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
Last stronghold of the pirates
Corcesium, Cilicia
Tribune proposing law granting way against Mithrdates o Pompey
Manilius - lex Manilia
Chief lictor
proximus lictor
New apprentice
Marcus Caelius Rufus
Governor of Macedonia who dies after losing in Cicero’s court
Caius Licinius Macer
Games of Apollo held by
Hybrida - Urban Praetor
Ponitifex Maximum summoning Cicero to talk about Cateline
Metellus Pius
Vestal Virgin Cateline is accused of seducing
Fabia - Terentia’s half sister
Province Cateline governs
Africa
Pompey’s former tribune accused of treason
Caius Cornelius
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
Palicanus’s daughter
Lollia - about to marry Gabinius. Screwing Ceasar
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
Election bribery - players
Interpretes, Sequestres, Divisores
Law forbidding electoral malpractice - criminal offence to accept a bribe
lex Figula - Marcius Figulus
Pompey’s base on the Black Sea
Amisus
Name given to Pompey’s house on the Esquiline
domus rostra
Bribery agent found by Ranunculus
Giaus Salinator
Salinatus’s bar
Bacchante
Who does Cicero ask for information about Crassus
Cealius Rufus
Banner for citizens from Nearer Gaul
Veturia
Tribune who denounces Cicero as unfit to be consul
Mucius Orestinus
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
vita umbratils
A life in the shade
Where does Cicero meet the aristocrats with evidence of Crassus’s scheme
Palace of Lucullus
Room in Lucullus’s palace
Room of Apollo
Who demands Tiro passes a shorthand test
Catulus
Morbus comitalis
Epileptic fit - epileptics asked to leave the Fields of Mars during voting
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
