Letter 18 (pg89)

Question 1

From

Answer 1

Cicero

Question 2

to

Answer 2

Atticus

Question 3

Date

Answer 3

19 December 45BC

Question 4

important events before letter

Answer 4

In the previous year Cicero had praised Cato (Caesars arch-republican enemy)

Question 5

45BC Cicero could have acted as a helper to Caesar, how? why not?

Answer 5

drafted an open letter to the dictator about future methods of government, the criticism of his friends decided him against sending it

Question 6

Gaius Marcius Philippus

Answer 6

stepfather of the future Augustus

Question 7

Mamurra

Answer 7

a nouveau rich senior officer of Caesar’s in Gaul (the news brought to Caesar in this letter may have been his death)

Question 8

Lucius Cornelius Balbus

Answer 8

an enormously wealthy spaniard, he and Oppius were Caesar’s chief ministers

Question 9

Rough outline

Answer 9

to describe Caesar coming to his villa for dinner

Question 10

genuin praise for Caesar

Answer 10

a formidable guest

Question 11

enjoyed it

Answer 11

everything went very pleasantly indeed

Question 12

dissproves of the many soldiers that accompanied Caesar

Answer 12

the house was so full of soldiers that there was hardly a room free for Caesar himself to have dinner

Question 13

amount of soldiers with Caesar

Answer 13

two thousand men

Question 14

up until one o’clock caesar

Answer 14

stayed with Philippus and let no one in, he was doing accounts with Balbus

Question 15

after one Caesar

Answer 15

went for a walk on the shore

Question 16

after two Caesar

Answer 16

had a bath

Question 17

what news was brought to Caesar? his reaction?

Answer 17

told about Mammurra “there was no change in his expression”

Question 18

before dinner Caesar

Answer 18

had an oil massage

Question 19

Cicero describes the meal as

Answer 19

good talk and in a word agreeable

Question 20

what did they talk about

Answer 20

we talked no serious politics, but a good deal about literary matters

Question 21

Caesar did like it

Answer 21

he liked it and enjoyed himself

Question 22

Cicero did not fully enjoy it

Answer 22

I found it a bother

Once is enough

Question 23

They were on the same level

Answer 23

we were human beings together

Question 24

icero was at first worried about the soldiers

Answer 24

i was distinctly alarmed