Source quotes

Question 1

8.8 Atticus

Answer 1

‘Pompey bids a long goodbye to honour’
‘what a dishonourable and therefore miserable thing’
‘i am too distressed to write much more’

Question 2

9.11a to Caesar

Answer 2

49BC
‘I always advocated peace’
‘pursue negotiations for peace and civic harmony’
‘an infringement of your rights’
‘i had no part in the war’

Question 3

Fam 10.6 Plancus

Answer 3

43BC
- ‘peace cannot be achieved by merely putting down your weapons’

Question 4

Fam 10.28 to Trebonius

Answer 4

‘most beautiful feast on the Ides of March!’

Question 5

14.4 to Atticus

Answer 5

‘the ides of march console us. our heroes achieved all they were able’

Question 6

Att. 13.40

Answer 6

‘brutus reports that caesar has joined the optimates? good news! but where is he going to find them - unless he hangs himself?’

Question 7

Att. 9.4

Answer 7

‘should one stay in one’s country if it is under oppressive rule?’

49BC, from Formiae

Question 8

Att. 2.18

Answer 8

59BC
- ‘we fear death and exile as greater evils, when really they are lesser ones’

• ‘i don’t care to write any more about politics. i am dissatisfied with myself, and cannot write without the greatest pain’
• ‘i don’t like running away; i am longing to fight’