Lustrum - full deck Flashcards
Part one
Consul - 63BC
Lustrum
Five years
Quote from JG Farrell book
Siege of Krishnapur - “We look on past ages with condescension”
What is pulled from the Tiber two days before Cicero is inaugurated as consul
Body of a boy
Magistrate responsible for keeping order
Octavius, aedile of the plebs
Octavius’s son
Augustus (eventually)
Where is the boy’s body kept
Tiber island
How old is the body
Twelve - human sacrifice
Who does the dead slave belong to
Antonius Hybrida
Who does Cicero ask about the human sacrifice
Sanga - patron of Gauls
What happens in Rome the day before Cicero’s inauguration (weather)
Snow
Who visits Cicero just before his inauguration
Catulus, Isauricus, Hortensius and Rabirius
Who is Rabirius charged with killing
Saturnius
What is the ancient charge being brought against Rabirius
Perduellio - Treason
What is the penalty for perduellio
Crucifixion
Who appoints the two judges for Rabirius’s trial
Lentulus Sura
Who does Sura appoint to try Rabirius
Julius Ceasar and his cousin Lucius
Who has laid the charge against Rubirius
Labienus - tribune
Where is Caesar’s house
Street of shoemakers
Caesar claims descent from …
Venus
Caesar’s daughter
Julia
Caesar’s mother
Aurelia
Women seen leaving Caesar’s house
Postumia, wife of Servius Sulpicius
Bronze in Caesar’s house
Venus, by Myron
Caesar’s wife at this time
Pompeia
First person to visit on inauguration day
College of Augurs
Pularii
Keepers of the sacred chickens
Augur that day
Quintus Caecilius Metellus CELER
Celer’s wife
Clodia
Where are new bills displayed
Outside the Temple of Saturn
Who proposes the populist bill
Rullus - tribune (actually written by Caesar and Crassus)
State land to be siezed
Campania
Size of elected commission
Ten
Generals awaiting triumphs
Quintus Metellus and Licinius Lucullus
Cicero’s refrain when spending money
Macedonia will pay
Cicero’s curule chair
Numidian ivory - 100,000s
Where does the senate meet
Temple of Jupiter
How many vestal virgins
Six
How many pontiffs of state religion
Fourteen
Sacrifice to Jupiter
White bull
How does Cicero describe himself
New man
How does Cicero describe the populist bill
Dagger aimed at the heart of the republic
Cicero’s first law of rhetoric - a speech must contain at least one …
surprise
What does Cicero give up during his inauguration speech
His province
What is held on the Alban Mount
Latin Festival
Highlight of Latin Festival
Swinging competition
What has been erected on the Field of Mars
Cross - Rabirius
Nationality of Hybrida’s murdered slave
Smyrnan
Who killed Hybrida’s slave
Catiline - hammer
Who does Hortensius discover actually killed Saturninus
Sceava - freed slave of Croton
How does Cicero halt Rabirius’s trial
Hauls down the flag on the Janiculum Hill
Bridge across the Tibur
Sublician Bridge
At the foot of the Janiculum …
Crows of Juno
Pontifex Maximus who dies
Metellus Pius
Two candidates for Pontifex Maximus
Catulus and Isauricus
Who wins the election for Pontifex Maximus
Caesar - 7 tribes, against Catulus (6), Isauricus (4)
Celer’s brother, Pompey’s legate
Nepos
Who has Pompey defeated in the east
Mithradates Eupator
Thanksgiving for Pompey’s victory
Ten days
One dissenting vote against Pompey’s thanksgiving
Cato
Cato’s household philosopher
Athenodorus Cordylion
Where is Pompey encamped
Petra
What do they call Pompey in the east
Warden of Land and Sea
Official residence of the Pontifex Maximus
Via Sacra
Who does Tiro see leaving Caesar’s house
Crassus
Terentia has supervison of …
Cult of the Good Goddess
Good Goddess’s temple
Aventine (snakes)
Who comes to tell Cicero of the plot against him
Unnamed mistress of Quintus Curio
Where is Cicero’s seaside villa
Formiae
Julius Caesar’s new mistress
Servilia - wife of Julius Silanus
Cicero’s bodyguards
Sextus brothers - Titus and Quintus
Lucullus’s palace on the Bay of Naples
Villa Cornelia
Lucullus’s slave girl
Agathe
What does Lucullus call his largest eel
Pompey
Lucullus’s first wife
One of the sisters of Clodius (not Clodia)
Lucullus’s second wife
Sister of Cato
Cicero’s name for Clodia
Lady Ox-Eyes
“If a fire is raised to consume my fortunes then I will put it out - not by water but by
demolition
Where is Lucullus lodging prior to his triumph
Villa Publica, Field of Mars
Consulship results (year following Cicero’s)
Silanus and Murena
Which of Catilina’s military lieutenant disappears to raise troops
Manlius
Phrase used to mock Cicero
“I have been informed”
Who does Tullia marry
Gaius Frugi
Cicero’s guard dog
Sargon (Assyrian king)
Who visits Cicero to tell of the plan to seize Praeneste
Crassus, Quintus Arrius
Who plans to seize Praenestre
Manlius
Which town does Manlius intend to seize on Catiline’s behalf
Praenestre
Who leaves the anonymous letters at Crassus’s house telling of the plan to seize Praenestre
Cicero via Sositheus
Who does Cicero persuade Crassus to help defend in court
Murena
Who does Cicero ask to take charge of the defence again Manlius
Celer
Sura’s stepson
Mark Anthony
Mark Anthony betrothed to
Antonia, daughter of Hybrida
Catiline’s first ancestor
Sergestus, companion of Aeneas
Where does Catiline pretend to exile himself to
Massila (Marseilles)
Quintus Metellus takes charge of
Apulia
Who will come to kill Cicero for Catiline
Vargunteius and Cornelius
Who comes to warn Cicero that Catiline is sending men to kill him
Rufus
Rufus sent back to his father’s house in
Interamna
Who comes with reinforcements to stop the attack on Cicero’s house
Atticus
What does Clodia send as a gift following the unsuccessful attack on Cicero’s house
Basket of fruit
Who vowed the Temple to Jupiter
Romulus - war against the Sabines
Where is the Senate to convene
Temple of Jupiter the Protector
Statue in the Temple of Jupiter
Scipio Africanus
“How much longer, Catiline …
… will you try our patience”
Where is Catiline staying
House of Marcus Laeca, street of the scythe-makers
Catiline leaves Rome with a silver eagle that once belonged to
Marius
Who does Cicero ask to set up a trap with the Gauls
Sanga
Who does Cicero want a Gaul to speak to
Publius Umbrenus, freedman of Lentulus Sura
What does Cicero want to contact Umbrenus about
Organising an uprising of Gaulish tribes
Tribe chosen to set up trap
Allobroges
Trial of Murena, Consul-elect
Servius and Cato for prosecution, Cicero, Hortensius and Crassus for defence
Murena’s campaign manager
Clodius
Who takes command of the army to go against Catiline
Hybrida
Who does Cicero appoint as second in command to Hybrida
Petreius
Who tells the Gauls of the plot
Capito (knight)
Who is to call a public assembly and demand Cicero’s arrest
Bestia
Who is to lead the death squad
Cethegus
Judge for Murena’s case
Cosconius
Gauls to meet conspirators at …
Fontinalian Gate
Who is appointed to accompany the Gauls
Flaccus and Pomptinus, century from Reate
Where is the ambush of the Gauls’ expedition planned
Mulvian Bridge over the Tiber
Password for the Mulvian Bridge
Aemilius Scaurus
Knight carrying the letters
Titus Volturcius of Croton
Senate to meet to discuss the conspiracy
Temple of Concordia
Chief of the Allobroges
Catugnatus
Cethegus’s reason for having so many weapons
I am a collector of weapons
What does Sura mean by “the lowest of the low”
Slaves
Where does Cicero have to stay during the night of the Good Goddess
Atticus’s house
Where are the prisoners strangles
Carcer
Who suggests life imprisonment for the conspirators
Caesar
Who turns the vote to death for the conspirators
Cato
Conspirators executed
Sura, Capito, Statilius, Caeparius, Cethegus
What does Cicero say to the crowd in the forum
They have lived - Vixerunt
Title bestowed on Cicero
Father of the Country - Pater Patriae
Where does Catiline make his past stand
Pisae
Who did the house on Victory Rise previously belong to
M Livius Drusus
Who is in the house next door
Celer
What price does Crassus settle on for the Drusus house
3.5m
Which of the conspirators does Cicero defend for two million sesterces
Publius Cornelius Sulla
Cicero set up as third foreign-born king of Rome after
Tarquin and Numa
Who does Cicero approach to write his biography in epic verse
Archias and Thyillus
Who does Clodius marry
Fulvia
Where does Atticus go back to
Epirus
Who is discovered in Caesar’s house on the night of the Good Goddess
Clodius
Why does Caesar divorce Pompeia after the night of the Good Goddess
Because the wife of the chief priest must be above suspicion
Which of Cicero’s secretaries dies
Sositheus
How much does Pompey bring to the treasury from him campaign in the east
200 million sesterce
Who does Pompey propose to marry when he comes back from the east
A niece or daughter of Cato
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”
Nefas
Impious deed, sin, etc - Clodius
Penalty for violating the sanctity of the vestal virgins
Beaten to death
Where does the senate convene to greet Pompey
Temple of Bellona
Entrance to Apollo’s shrine at Delphi
Know thyself, Desire nothing too much, Never go to law
Who is providing Clodius with an alibi
C Causinius Schola from Interamna - 90 miles from Rome
Who does Cicero know from Interamna
Caelius Rufus
Chief prosecutor of Clodius
Lentulus Crus
Defending Clodius
Curio
Vote in Clodius’s trial
31 to 25 for acquittal
Which aged senator dies in Cicero’s house during a conference following Clodius’s acquittal
Catulus
Where is Clodius to go as a junior magistrate
Sicily
Where does Quintus go to govern
Asia
Pompey’s cloak
Alexander the Great
Pompey’s new nickname
The Pharaoh
What is Pompey building on the Fields of Mars
Theatre
Metelli’s family symbol
Elephant
Cato conducts his business under a bust of …
Zeno
Tribune Pompey turns to to propose bill
Fulvius
Proposer of bill asking the people whether Clodius should be a pleb
Herennius
Who draws the ballot for Further Gaul
Celer
Who proposes three days of thanksgiving for Caesar’s acheivements in Span
Crassus
Caesar’s vote for consul …
unanimous
Caesar’s Spanish engineer
Balbus - born in Gades
Official commission for land reform proposed by Caesar
20, inner commission of five - Caesar, Pompey, Crassus, Cicero and ?
Triumvirate (first)
Caesar, Crassus, Pompey - Beast with three heads
Who does Caesar have removed from the Senate and imprisoned
Cato
Caesar’s fellow consul who stands against land reform
Bibulus
Tribune for triumvirate - ugliest man in Rome
Vatinius
Who does Cicero have to defend in the treason court
Hybrida
Who is prosecuting Hybrida
Caelius Rufus
Qualification for land reform
More than three children
Senators made to swear they won’t repeal land reform act on …
Sacred stone of Jupiter
Judge in the treason court for Hybrida’s trial
Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus
Region Hybrida is accused of losing
Histria - lower Danube
Who defeats Hybrida’s forces on the Danube
Basterns
Triumvirate’s surrogates
Balbus for Caesar, Afrianus for Pompey, Arrius for Crassus
Votes in Hybrida’s trial
47 for condemnation, 12 for acquittal
Who arranges for Clodius to become a pleb
Caesar
Who has replaced Catulus in the college of priests
Crassus
Who adopts Clodius so he can be a pleb
Publius Fonteius
Provinces granted to Caesar for five years
Lower Gaul and Bithynia
How is Celer presumed to have died
Poison (Clodia, his wife)
Who is seen with Clodia after Celer dies
Caelius Rufus
New Cicero property
Antium
Claudian family estate
Solonium
Book Cicero writes - fourth version of autobiography
The Secret History of my Consulship
Where is the Secret History to be buried
Between hornbeam and ash
Where has Pompey tried to send Clodius
Armenia
What news does Atticus send from Rome to Formiae
Pompey has married again
Who has Pompey married
Julia - Caesar’s daughter
Cicero’s wedding gift to Pompey
Silver dish
Who becomes governor of Further Gaul following the death of Celer
Caesar
How many legions does Caesar have
Five
Who does Caesar force to apologise to him in the senate on his knees
Lucullus
Who does Caesar marry
Calpernia - daughter of Lucius Calpernius Piso
What post does Caesar offer Cicero in Gaul
Legate
Clodius’s bill proposes to give every citizen
monthly dole of bread
How much is the dole to cost the treasury
100 m a year
Cicero’s tame tribune to veto the bill
Ninnius Quadratus
Clodius’s man of affairs
Cloelius
Which temple is disfigured by Clodius’s followers and used as a headquarters
Castor
What does Clodius’s bill forbid anyone to offer Cicero
Fire and water
Cicero’s most valuable possession
Citrus-wood table, 500,000s
Who does Cicero try to see to ask help from?
Pompey
