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Lustrum - full deck Flashcards

1
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Part one

A

Consul - 63BC

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2
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Lustrum

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Five years

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3
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Quote from JG Farrell book

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Siege of Krishnapur - “We look on past ages with condescension”

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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

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5
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Magistrate responsible for keeping order

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Octavius, aedile of the plebs

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6
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Octavius’s son

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Augustus (eventually)

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7
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Where is the boy’s body kept

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Tiber island

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8
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How old is the body

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Twelve - human sacrifice

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9
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Who does the dead slave belong to

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Antonius Hybrida

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10
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Who does Cicero ask about the human sacrifice

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Sanga - patron of Gauls

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11
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What happens in Rome the day before Cicero’s inauguration (weather)

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Snow

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12
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Who visits Cicero just before his inauguration

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Catulus, Isauricus, Hortensius and Rabirius

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13
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Who is Rabirius charged with killing

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Saturnius

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14
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What is the ancient charge being brought against Rabirius

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Perduellio - Treason

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15
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What is the penalty for perduellio

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Crucifixion

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16
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Who appoints the two judges for Rabirius’s trial

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Lentulus Sura

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17
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Who does Sura appoint to try Rabirius

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Julius Ceasar and his cousin Lucius

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18
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Who has laid the charge against Rubirius

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Labienus - tribune

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19
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Where is Caesar’s house

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Street of shoemakers

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20
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Caesar claims descent from …

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Venus

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21
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Caesar’s daughter

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Julia

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22
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Caesar’s mother

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Aurelia

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23
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Women seen leaving Caesar’s house

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Postumia, wife of Servius Sulpicius

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24
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Bronze in Caesar’s house

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Venus, by Myron

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25
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Caesar’s wife at this time

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Pompeia

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26
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First person to visit on inauguration day

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College of Augurs

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27
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Pularii

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Keepers of the sacred chickens

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28
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Augur that day

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Quintus Caecilius Metellus CELER

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29
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Celer’s wife

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Clodia

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30
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Where are new bills displayed

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Outside the Temple of Saturn

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31
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Who proposes the populist bill

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Rullus - tribune (actually written by Caesar and Crassus)

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32
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State land to be siezed

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Campania

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33
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Size of elected commission

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Ten

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34
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Generals awaiting triumphs

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Quintus Metellus and Licinius Lucullus

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35
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Cicero’s refrain when spending money

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Macedonia will pay

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36
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Cicero’s curule chair

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Numidian ivory - 100,000s

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37
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Where does the senate meet

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Temple of Jupiter

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38
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How many vestal virgins

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Six

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39
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How many pontiffs of state religion

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Fourteen

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40
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Sacrifice to Jupiter

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White bull

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41
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How does Cicero describe himself

A

New man

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42
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How does Cicero describe the populist bill

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Dagger aimed at the heart of the republic

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43
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Cicero’s first law of rhetoric - a speech must contain at least one …

A

surprise

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44
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What does Cicero give up during his inauguration speech

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His province

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45
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What is held on the Alban Mount

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Latin Festival

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46
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Highlight of Latin Festival

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Swinging competition

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47
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What has been erected on the Field of Mars

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Cross - Rabirius

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48
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Nationality of Hybrida’s murdered slave

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Smyrnan

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49
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Who killed Hybrida’s slave

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Catiline - hammer

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50
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Who does Hortensius discover actually killed Saturninus

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Sceava - freed slave of Croton

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51
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How does Cicero halt Rabirius’s trial

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Hauls down the flag on the Janiculum Hill

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52
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Bridge across the Tibur

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Sublician Bridge

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53
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At the foot of the Janiculum …

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Crows of Juno

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54
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Pontifex Maximus who dies

A

Metellus Pius

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55
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Two candidates for Pontifex Maximus

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Catulus and Isauricus

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56
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Who wins the election for Pontifex Maximus

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Caesar - 7 tribes, against Catulus (6), Isauricus (4)

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57
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Celer’s brother, Pompey’s legate

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Nepos

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58
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Who has Pompey defeated in the east

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Mithradates Eupator

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59
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Thanksgiving for Pompey’s victory

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Ten days

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60
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One dissenting vote against Pompey’s thanksgiving

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Cato

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61
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Cato’s household philosopher

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Athenodorus Cordylion

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62
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Where is Pompey encamped

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Petra

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63
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What do they call Pompey in the east

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Warden of Land and Sea

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64
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Official residence of the Pontifex Maximus

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Via Sacra

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65
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Who does Tiro see leaving Caesar’s house

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Crassus

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66
Q

Terentia has supervison of …

A

Cult of the Good Goddess

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67
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Good Goddess’s temple

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Aventine (snakes)

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68
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Who comes to tell Cicero of the plot against him

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Unnamed mistress of Quintus Curio

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69
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Where is Cicero’s seaside villa

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Formiae

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70
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Julius Caesar’s new mistress

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Servilia - wife of Julius Silanus

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71
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Cicero’s bodyguards

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Sextus brothers - Titus and Quintus

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72
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Lucullus’s palace on the Bay of Naples

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Villa Cornelia

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73
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Lucullus’s slave girl

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Agathe

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74
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What does Lucullus call his largest eel

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Pompey

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75
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Lucullus’s first wife

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One of the sisters of Clodius (not Clodia)

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76
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Lucullus’s second wife

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Sister of Cato

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77
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Cicero’s name for Clodia

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Lady Ox-Eyes

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78
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“If a fire is raised to consume my fortunes then I will put it out - not by water but by

A

demolition

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79
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Where is Lucullus lodging prior to his triumph

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Villa Publica, Field of Mars

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80
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Consulship results (year following Cicero’s)

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Silanus and Murena

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81
Q

Which of Catilina’s military lieutenant disappears to raise troops

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Manlius

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82
Q

Phrase used to mock Cicero

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“I have been informed”

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83
Q

Who does Tullia marry

A

Gaius Frugi

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84
Q

Cicero’s guard dog

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Sargon (Assyrian king)

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85
Q

Who visits Cicero to tell of the plan to seize Praeneste

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Crassus, Quintus Arrius

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86
Q

Who plans to seize Praenestre

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Manlius

87
Q

Which town does Manlius intend to seize on Catiline’s behalf

A

Praenestre

88
Q

Who leaves the anonymous letters at Crassus’s house telling of the plan to seize Praenestre

A

Cicero via Sositheus

89
Q

Who does Cicero persuade Crassus to help defend in court

A

Murena

90
Q

Who does Cicero ask to take charge of the defence again Manlius

A

Celer

91
Q

Sura’s stepson

A

Mark Anthony

92
Q

Mark Anthony betrothed to

A

Antonia, daughter of Hybrida

93
Q

Catiline’s first ancestor

A

Sergestus, companion of Aeneas

94
Q

Where does Catiline pretend to exile himself to

A

Massila (Marseilles)

95
Q

Quintus Metellus takes charge of

A

Apulia

96
Q

Who will come to kill Cicero for Catiline

A

Vargunteius and Cornelius

97
Q

Who comes to warn Cicero that Catiline is sending men to kill him

A

Rufus

98
Q

Rufus sent back to his father’s house in

A

Interamna

99
Q

Who comes with reinforcements to stop the attack on Cicero’s house

A

Atticus

100
Q

What does Clodia send as a gift following the unsuccessful attack on Cicero’s house

A

Basket of fruit

101
Q

Who vowed the Temple to Jupiter

A

Romulus - war against the Sabines

102
Q

Where is the Senate to convene

A

Temple of Jupiter the Protector

103
Q

Statue in the Temple of Jupiter

A

Scipio Africanus

104
Q

“How much longer, Catiline …

A

… will you try our patience”

105
Q

Where is Catiline staying

A

House of Marcus Laeca, street of the scythe-makers

106
Q

Catiline leaves Rome with a silver eagle that once belonged to

A

Marius

107
Q

Who does Cicero ask to set up a trap with the Gauls

A

Sanga

108
Q

Who does Cicero want a Gaul to speak to

A

Publius Umbrenus, freedman of Lentulus Sura

109
Q

What does Cicero want to contact Umbrenus about

A

Organising an uprising of Gaulish tribes

110
Q

Tribe chosen to set up trap

A

Allobroges

111
Q

Trial of Murena, Consul-elect

A

Servius and Cato for prosecution, Cicero, Hortensius and Crassus for defence

112
Q

Murena’s campaign manager

A

Clodius

113
Q

Who takes command of the army to go against Catiline

A

Hybrida

114
Q

Who does Cicero appoint as second in command to Hybrida

A

Petreius

115
Q

Who tells the Gauls of the plot

A

Capito (knight)

116
Q

Who is to call a public assembly and demand Cicero’s arrest

A

Bestia

117
Q

Who is to lead the death squad

A

Cethegus

118
Q

Judge for Murena’s case

A

Cosconius

119
Q

Gauls to meet conspirators at …

A

Fontinalian Gate

120
Q

Who is appointed to accompany the Gauls

A

Flaccus and Pomptinus, century from Reate

121
Q

Where is the ambush of the Gauls’ expedition planned

A

Mulvian Bridge over the Tiber

122
Q

Password for the Mulvian Bridge

A

Aemilius Scaurus

123
Q

Knight carrying the letters

A

Titus Volturcius of Croton

124
Q

Senate to meet to discuss the conspiracy

A

Temple of Concordia

125
Q

Chief of the Allobroges

A

Catugnatus

126
Q

Cethegus’s reason for having so many weapons

A

I am a collector of weapons

127
Q

What does Sura mean by “the lowest of the low”

A

Slaves

128
Q

Where does Cicero have to stay during the night of the Good Goddess

A

Atticus’s house

129
Q

Where are the prisoners strangles

A

Carcer

130
Q

Who suggests life imprisonment for the conspirators

A

Caesar

131
Q

Who turns the vote to death for the conspirators

A

Cato

132
Q

Conspirators executed

A

Sura, Capito, Statilius, Caeparius, Cethegus

133
Q

What does Cicero say to the crowd in the forum

A

They have lived - Vixerunt

134
Q

Title bestowed on Cicero

A

Father of the Country - Pater Patriae

135
Q

Where does Catiline make his past stand

A

Pisae

136
Q

Who did the house on Victory Rise previously belong to

A

M Livius Drusus

137
Q

Who is in the house next door

A

Celer

138
Q

What price does Crassus settle on for the Drusus house

A

3.5m

139
Q

Which of the conspirators does Cicero defend for two million sesterces

A

Publius Cornelius Sulla

140
Q

Cicero set up as third foreign-born king of Rome after

A

Tarquin and Numa

141
Q

Who does Cicero approach to write his biography in epic verse

A

Archias and Thyillus

142
Q

Who does Clodius marry

A

Fulvia

143
Q

Where does Atticus go back to

A

Epirus

144
Q

Who is discovered in Caesar’s house on the night of the Good Goddess

A

Clodius

145
Q

Why does Caesar divorce Pompeia after the night of the Good Goddess

A

Because the wife of the chief priest must be above suspicion

146
Q

Which of Cicero’s secretaries dies

A

Sositheus

147
Q

How much does Pompey bring to the treasury from him campaign in the east

A

200 million sesterce

148
Q

Who does Pompey propose to marry when he comes back from the east

A

A niece or daughter of Cato

149
Q

What does Pompey’s daughter quote to his on his return

A

Helen to Paris - Homer “You came back from the war. I wish you had died there”

150
Q

Nefas

A

Impious deed, sin, etc - Clodius

151
Q

Penalty for violating the sanctity of the vestal virgins

A

Beaten to death

152
Q

Where does the senate convene to greet Pompey

A

Temple of Bellona

153
Q

Entrance to Apollo’s shrine at Delphi

A

Know thyself, Desire nothing too much, Never go to law

154
Q

Who is providing Clodius with an alibi

A

C Causinius Schola from Interamna - 90 miles from Rome

155
Q

Who does Cicero know from Interamna

A

Caelius Rufus

156
Q

Chief prosecutor of Clodius

A

Lentulus Crus

157
Q

Defending Clodius

A

Curio

158
Q

Vote in Clodius’s trial

A

31 to 25 for acquittal

159
Q

Which aged senator dies in Cicero’s house during a conference following Clodius’s acquittal

A

Catulus

160
Q

Where is Clodius to go as a junior magistrate

A

Sicily

161
Q

Where does Quintus go to govern

A

Asia

162
Q

Pompey’s cloak

A

Alexander the Great

163
Q

Pompey’s new nickname

A

The Pharaoh

164
Q

What is Pompey building on the Fields of Mars

A

Theatre

165
Q

Metelli’s family symbol

A

Elephant

166
Q

Cato conducts his business under a bust of …

A

Zeno

167
Q

Tribune Pompey turns to to propose bill

A

Fulvius

168
Q

Proposer of bill asking the people whether Clodius should be a pleb

A

Herennius

169
Q

Who draws the ballot for Further Gaul

A

Celer

170
Q

Who proposes three days of thanksgiving for Caesar’s acheivements in Span

A

Crassus

171
Q

Caesar’s vote for consul …

A

unanimous

172
Q

Caesar’s Spanish engineer

A

Balbus - born in Gades

173
Q

Official commission for land reform proposed by Caesar

A

20, inner commission of five - Caesar, Pompey, Crassus, Cicero and ?

174
Q

Triumvirate (first)

A

Caesar, Crassus, Pompey - Beast with three heads

175
Q

Who does Caesar have removed from the Senate and imprisoned

A

Cato

176
Q

Caesar’s fellow consul who stands against land reform

A

Bibulus

177
Q

Tribune for triumvirate - ugliest man in Rome

A

Vatinius

178
Q

Who does Cicero have to defend in the treason court

A

Hybrida

179
Q

Who is prosecuting Hybrida

A

Caelius Rufus

180
Q

Qualification for land reform

A

More than three children

181
Q

Senators made to swear they won’t repeal land reform act on …

A

Sacred stone of Jupiter

182
Q

Judge in the treason court for Hybrida’s trial

A

Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus

183
Q

Region Hybrida is accused of losing

A

Histria - lower Danube

184
Q

Who defeats Hybrida’s forces on the Danube

A

Basterns

185
Q

Triumvirate’s surrogates

A

Balbus for Caesar, Afrianus for Pompey, Arrius for Crassus

186
Q

Votes in Hybrida’s trial

A

47 for condemnation, 12 for acquittal

187
Q

Who arranges for Clodius to become a pleb

A

Caesar

188
Q

Who has replaced Catulus in the college of priests

A

Crassus

189
Q

Who adopts Clodius so he can be a pleb

A

Publius Fonteius

190
Q

Provinces granted to Caesar for five years

A

Lower Gaul and Bithynia

191
Q

How is Celer presumed to have died

A

Poison (Clodia, his wife)

192
Q

Who is seen with Clodia after Celer dies

A

Caelius Rufus

193
Q

New Cicero property

A

Antium

194
Q

Claudian family estate

A

Solonium

195
Q

Book Cicero writes - fourth version of autobiography

A

The Secret History of my Consulship

196
Q

Where is the Secret History to be buried

A

Between hornbeam and ash

197
Q

Where has Pompey tried to send Clodius

A

Armenia

198
Q

What news does Atticus send from Rome to Formiae

A

Pompey has married again

199
Q

Who has Pompey married

A

Julia - Caesar’s daughter

200
Q

Cicero’s wedding gift to Pompey

A

Silver dish

201
Q

Who becomes governor of Further Gaul following the death of Celer

A

Caesar

202
Q

How many legions does Caesar have

A

Five

203
Q

Who does Caesar force to apologise to him in the senate on his knees

A

Lucullus

204
Q

Who does Caesar marry

A

Calpernia - daughter of Lucius Calpernius Piso

205
Q

What post does Caesar offer Cicero in Gaul

A

Legate

206
Q

Clodius’s bill proposes to give every citizen

A

monthly dole of bread

207
Q

How much is the dole to cost the treasury

A

100 m a year

208
Q

Cicero’s tame tribune to veto the bill

A

Ninnius Quadratus

209
Q

Clodius’s man of affairs

A

Cloelius

210
Q

Which temple is disfigured by Clodius’s followers and used as a headquarters

A

Castor

211
Q

What does Clodius’s bill forbid anyone to offer Cicero

A

Fire and water

212
Q

Cicero’s most valuable possession

A

Citrus-wood table, 500,000s

213
Q

Who does Cicero try to see to ask help from?

A

Pompey

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