Lustrum Flashcards
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Part one
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Consul - 63BC
2
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Lustrum
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Five years
3
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Quote from JG Farrell book
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Siege of Krishnapur - “We look on past ages with condescension”
4
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What is pulled from the Tiber two days before Cicero is inaugurated as consul
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Body of a boy
5
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Magistrate responsible for keeping order
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Octavius, aedile of the plebs
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How old is the body
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Twelve - human sacrifice
7
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Who does the dead slave belong to
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Antonius Hybrida
8
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Who does Cicero ask about the human sacrifice
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Sanga - patron of Gauls
9
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Who visits Cicero just before his inauguration
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Catulus, Isauricus, Hortensius and Rabirius
10
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Who is Rabirius charged with killing
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Saturnius
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What is the ancient charge being brought against Rabirius
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Perduellio - Treason
12
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What is the penalty for perduellio
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Crucifixion
13
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Who appoints the two judges for Rabirius’s trial
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Lentulus Sura
14
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Who does Sura appoint to try Rabirius
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Julius Ceasar and his cousin Lucius
15
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Who has laid the charge against Rubirius
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Labienus - tribune
16
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Caesar claims descent from …
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Venus
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Caesar’s daughter
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Julia
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Caesar’s mother
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Aurelia
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Women seen leaving Caesar’s house
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Postumia, wife of Servius Sulpicius
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Bronze in Caesar’s house
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Venus, by Myron
21
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Caesar’s wife at this time
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Pompeia
22
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Pularii
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Keepers of the sacred chickens
23
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Augur that day
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Quintus Caecilius Metellus CELER
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Celer’s wife
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Clodia
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Where are new bills displayed
Outside the Temple of Saturn
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State land to be siezed
Campania
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Cicero's refrain when spending money
Macedonia will pay
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Where does the senate meet
Temple of Jupiter
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How many vestal virgins
Six
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How many pontiffs of state religion
Fourteen
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Sacrifice to Jupiter
White bull
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Cicero's first law of rhetoric - a speech must contain at least one ...
surprise
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What is held on the Alban Mount
Latin Festival
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Highlight of Latin Festival
Swinging competition
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What has been erected on the Field of Mars
Cross - Rabirius
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Nationality of Hybrida's murdered slave
Smyrnan
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Who killed Hybrida's slave
Catiline - hammer
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How does Cicero halt Rabirius's trial
Hauls down the flag on the Janiculum Hill
39
Pontifex Maximus who dies
Metellus Pius
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Two candidates for Pontifex Maximus
Catulus and Isauricus
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Who wins the election for Pontifex Maximus
Caesar - 7 tribes, against Catulus (6), Isauricus (4)
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Who has Pompey defeated in the east
Mithradates Eupator
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What do they call Pompey in the east
Warden of Land and Sea
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Official residence of the Pontifex Maximus
Via Sacra
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Terentia has supervison of ...
Cult of the Good Goddess
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Good Goddess's temple
Aventine (snakes)
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Who comes to tell Cicero of the plot against him
Unnamed mistress of Quintus Curio
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Where is Cicero's seaside villa
Formiae
49
Julius Caesar's new mistress
Servilia - wife of Julius Silanus
50
Cicero's bodyguards
Sextus brothers - Titus and Quintus
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Lucullus's palace on the Bay of Naples
Villa Cornelia
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Lucullus's slave girl
Agathe
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What does Lucullus call his largest eel
Pompey
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Cicero's name for Clodia
Lady Ox-Eyes
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"If a fire is raised to consume my fortunes then I will put it out - not by water but by
demolition
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Which of Catilina's military lieutenant disappears to raise troops
Manlius
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Phrase used to mock Cicero
"I have been informed"
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Who does Tullia marry
Gaius Frugi
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Cicero's guard dog
Sargon (Assyrian king)
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Which town does Manlius intend to seize on Catiline's behalf
Praenestre
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Who leaves the anonymous letters at Crassus's house telling of the plan to seize Praenestre
Cicero via Sositheus
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Sura's stepson
Mark Anthony
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Mark Anthony betrothed to
Antonia, daughter of Hybrida
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Catiline's first ancestor
Sergestus, companion of Aeneas
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Where does Catiline pretend to exile himself to
Massila (Marseilles)
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Who will come to kill Cicero for Catiline
Vargunteius and Cornelius
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Who comes to warn Cicero that Catiline is sending men to kill him
Rufus
68
Rufus sent back to his father's house in
Interamna
69
Who comes with reinforcements to stop the attack on Cicero's house
Atticus
70
What does Clodia send as a gift following the unsuccessful attack on Cicero's house
Basket of fruit
71
"How much longer, Catiline ...
... will you try our patience"
72
Catiline leaves Rome with a silver eagle that once belonged to
Marius
73
Tribe chosen to set up trap
Allobroges
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Who takes command of the army to go against Catiline
Hybrida
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Who does Cicero appoint as second in command to Hybrida
Petreius
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Who is appointed to accompany the Gauls
Flaccus and Pomptinus, century from Reate
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Where is the ambush of the Gauls' expedition planned
Mulvian Bridge over the Tiber
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Password for the Mulvian Bridge
Aemilius Scaurus
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Knight carrying the letters
Titus Volturcius of Croton
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Senate to meet to discuss the conspiracy
Temple of Concordia
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Chief of the Allobroges
Catugnatus
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What does Sura mean by "the lowest of the low"
Slaves
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Where are the prisoners strangled
Carcer
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Who suggests life imprisonment for the conspirators
Caesar
85
Who turns the vote to death for the conspirators
Cato
86
Conspirators executed
Sura, Capito, Statilius, Caeparius, Cethegus
87
What does Cicero say to the crowd in the forum
They have lived - Vixerunt
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Title bestowed on Cicero
Father of the Country - Pater Patriae
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Where does Catiline make his last stand
Pisae
90
Who did the house on Victory Rise previously belong to
M Livius Drusus
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Who is in the house next door
Celer
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What price does Crassus settle on for the Drusus house
3.5m
93
Which of the conspirators does Cicero defend for two million sesterces
Publius Cornelius Sulla
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Who does Cicero approach to write his biography in epic verse
Archias and Thyillus
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Who does Clodius marry
Fulvia
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Where does Atticus go back to
Epirus
97
Who is discovered in Caesar's house on the night of the Good Goddess
Clodius
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Why does Caesar divorce Pompeia after the night of the Good Goddess
Because the wife of the chief priest must be above suspicion
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Which of Cicero's secretaries dies
Sositheus
100
What does Pompey's daughter quote to his on his return
Helen to Paris - Homer "You came back from the war. I wish you had died there"
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Nefas
Impious deed, sin, etc - Clodius
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Penalty for violating the sanctity of the vestal virgins
Beaten to death
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Entrance to Apollo's shrine at Delphi
Know thyself, Desire nothing too much, Never go to law
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Who is providing Clodius with an alibi
C Causinius Schola from Interamna - 90 miles from Rome
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Which aged senator dies in Cicero's house during a conference following Clodius's acquittal
Catulus
106
Pompey's cloak
Alexander the Great
107
Pompey's new nickname
The Pharaoh
108
What is Pompey building on the Fields of Mars
Theatre
109
Metelli's family symbol
Elephant
110
Caesar's Spanish engineer
Balbus - born in Gades
111
Triumvirate (first)
Caesar, Crassus, Pompey - Beast with three heads
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Who does Caesar have removed from the Senate and imprisoned
Cato
113
Caesar's fellow consul who stands against land reform
Bibulus
114
Tribune for triumvirate - ugliest man in Rome
Vatinius
115
Who does Cicero have to defend in the treason court
Hybrida
116
Who is prosecuting Hybrida
Caelius Rufus
117
Qualification for land reform
More than three children
118
Senators made to swear they won't repeal land reform act on ...
Sacred stone of Jupiter
119
Region Hybrida is accused of losing
Histria - lower Danube
120
Who defeats Hybrida's forces on the Danube
Basterns
121
Who arranges for Clodius to become a pleb
Caesar
122
Who has replaced Catulus in the college of priests
Crassus
123
Who adopts Clodius so he can be a pleb
Publius Fonteius
124
Provinces granted to Caesar for five years
Lower Gaul and Bithynia
125
How is Celer presumed to have died
Poison (Clodia, his wife)
126
Who is seen with Clodia after Celer dies
Caelius Rufus
127
Who has Pompey married
Julia - Caesar's daughter
128
Cicero's wedding gift to Pompey
Silver dish
129
Who does Caesar force to apologise to him in the senate on his knees
Lucullus
130
Who does Caesar marry
Calpernia - daughter of Lucius Calpernius Piso
131
What post does Caesar offer Cicero in Gaul
Legate
132
Which temple is disfigured by Clodius's followers and used as a headquarters
Castor
133
What does Clodius's bill forbid anyone to offer Cicero
Fire and water
134
Cicero's most valuable possession
Citrus-wood table, 500,000s
