2.4 Cicero and the Res Publica

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  • How did Cicero try to avoid offending Crassus in the De rege Alexandrino?
    He didn't mention him by name
  • Example of Cicero's recantation
    In 56 BCE, he made a speech, De Provinciis Consularibus, which praises the triumvirs
    He had to defend Vatinus in 54 BCE
  • Where is Cicero when he is undecided on who to support in the civil war?

    Formiae
  • When was Cicero's quaestorship?
    75 BCE
  • When was the lex Gabinia?
    67 BCE
  • When was the lex Manilia?
    66 BCE
  • When was the first consulship of Pompey and Crassus?
    70 BCE
  • When was Cicero's aedileship?
    69 BCE
  • When was Cicero's consulship?
    63 BCE
  • When was the Pro Rabirio?
    63 BCE
  • When was Cicero exiled?
    58 BCE
  • When was Clodius' tribuneship?
    58 BCE
  • When did Cicero return from exile?

    57 BCE
  • Other than exiling Cicero, what did Clodius do as tribune in 58 BCE?
    Lex Clodia Frumentaria established the grain dole.
    Repeal Cicero's law forbidding trade guilds called collegia
  • What was Cicero's first notable case and when?
    Pro Roscio Amerino in 80 BCE
  • What was the Pro Roscio Amerino?
    High profile case in which Cicero defend Roscius, a noble and pro-Sullan, against a charge of patricide
  • How did the Pro Roscio Amerino advance Cicero's image?

    It brought him allies and made him, as a novus homo, less threatening to conservatives as he was willing to defend them
  • What is notable about when Cicero ran for quaestor?
    It was suo anno
  • When and where was Cicero's quaestorship?
    75 BCE in Western Sicily
  • What is significant about the location of Cicero's quaestorship?
    It was in an area which supplied large amounts of grain
  • What does Cicero do in the year after he returns from exile?
    Campaigns to repeal the Campanian Law and Helped Pompey get his campaign for the restore the grain supplyAttacks Clodius in the Pro Sestio
  • What are the Latin terms for Cicero's two ideals?
    concordia ordinum and cum dignitate otium
  • What does concordia ordinum mean?
    Translated as harmony of the classes, meaning he wants nobiles and equites to work together to rule over the Roman people
  • What does cum dignitate otium mean?
    The desire to end civil violence and political leaders to follow the mos maiorum and have less ambition and power hunger
  • What is the Roman set of values called?
    mos maiorum
  • What do we learn about how Cicero views himself from the Sicilian anecdote?
    Cicero refers to himself as "a man of Arpinum" revealing that he is proud that he has risen so greatly
  • What is the name of the story of Cicero finding the tomb of Archimedes?
    The Sicilian Anecdote
  • What is the Sicilian Anecdote?
    Cicero's recounting of him finding the tomb of Archimedes as quaestor in Sicily
  • What did Cicero learn from his quaestorship?
    He felt like he had huge success but when he returned to Rome, no one knew him, teaching him that you had to be in Rome to gain fame
  • How does Cicero show his belief in concordia ordinum in legal cases?
    In 69 BCE, he defended Matrinius, an equites and aedile clerk
  • When did Cicero's father die?
    68 BCE
  • What did Cicero's father dying mean for his career?
    He was now the patriarch
    He inherited the family estate
    Can now invest in property which is useful for when he travels or hosts
  • Why did Cicero choose aedile over tribune?
    After the Verres case, he didn't want to seem to populares or a threat to the Optimates
    He also knew, since his quaestorship, that publicity, gained from the aedileship was powerful
  • What did Cicero notably do as aedile?
    Kept the cost of grain down with the help of the grateful Sicilians
  • Which law and when gave Pompey imperium to deal with the pirates?
    The Lex Gabinia in 67 BCE
  • How did Cicero help Pompey with the Lex Gabinia to give Pompey imperium to deal with the pirates?
    He didn't get involved
  • Cicero Cursus Honorum dates
    75 Quaestor 69 Aedile 66 Praetor 63 Consul
  • Why did Cicero not help Pompey with the Lex Gabinia in 67 BCE to give him imperium to deal with pirates?
    he didn't want to antagonise the optimates, especially considering his praetor election was that year which was voted by the centuriate assembly, meaning the nobles had more power
  • What did the Lex Manilia 66 BCE do?
    Gave Pompey sole imperium to fight Mithridates
  • What is significant about the Pro Lege Manilia in Cicero's political career?
    It was Cicero's first moment publicly showing support for Pompey
    It was his first tie speaking publicly on any political issue