Pre Triumvirate

Question 1

Cicero’s relationship with Pompey after his consulship

-Pompey still in the East

Answer 1

Wrote a letter to Pompey about his “rescue of the republic”
Pompey was not as favorable as Cicero had hoped
Cicero sends a letter of praise to Pompey

Question 2

Pompey’s actions upon his return from the East

Answer 2

simply disarmed his legions outside the city (won the senates trust and backing)
asked the senate to grant him land for his veterans
and to grant the settlement of the East

Question 3

Cicero’s relationship with Pompey in 61Bc

Answer 3

Disappointed tells Atticus that he pretends to be friends with him but really he is jeealous of him and that his speech was flat and encouraged no one

Question 4

Bona Dea scandal

Answer 4

the optimates used it to ruin Clodius’s career

Cicero was trying to support them spoke against Clodius when the matter came to a trial

Question 5

Pompey and Cicero draw closer together

Answer 5

Cicero “the apple of Pompey’s eye”
“young aristocrats give him the nickname Gnaeus Cicero”
-Cicero in a letter to Atticus about word on the street

Question 6

61 BC Cicero’s feelings about the equites and Senate

Answer 6

politics are a bit in a mess
revolutions seem to b threatening
equites are breaking away from the senate
the equites care only about finances

Question 7

60BC Pompey’s aim at getting land and the eastern settlement

Answer 7

used the Tribune Flavius to produce a bill
blocked by the senate’s use of another tribune’s veto
Cicero joined the opposition

Question 8

Why Pompey was not happy with Cicero 60BC

Answer 8

Cicero had not supported his land bill

Pompey was only going to support him if Cicero supported him

Question 9

Caesars praetorship

Answer 9

62BC
went to spain as provincial governor
now standing for 59 consulship