Letter 6 Flashcards
Date
5 or 6 may 51BC
From
Cicero
To
Atticus
Important previous events
Clodius murdered
Cicero unable to defend Milo
Cicero on his way to his allotted province of Cilicia
purpose
to ask for Atticus’s help
asks him to make sure he doesn’t have to stay in Cilicia any longer
“make sure that no decrees are passed which would extend this unhappy separation beyond the statutory year”
Moans about Pomponia (his brother’s wife, Atticus’s sister)
“your sister thoroughly acrimonious”
“she refused to sleep with him”
“allot of things…irritated me”
He payed his debt to one of Caesar’s henchmen
“as regards to Oppius…in paying him with 800,000 sesterces”