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    Louis E. Introduction. In Cicero (1937). Yavetz, Z (1963). "The failure of Catiline's conspiracy". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 12 (4):...
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    den "Zwangssteuerstaat" – Blasen zu Phrasen" de:Cicero (Zeitschrift) Kleptokratie des Staates, in Cicero, July 2009, p.42 Archived 17 August 2009 at the...
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  • opponent of Cicero, he was responsible during his plebeian tribunate in 58 BC for a massive expansion of the Roman grain dole as well as Cicero's exile from...
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    Rural Tribes. American Academy. Waters, KH (1970). "Cicero, Sallust and Catiline". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 19 (2): 195–215. ISSN 0018-2311...
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    which was discovered two years later when Cicero was appointed proconsul between 51 and 50 BC. Brutus asked Cicero to help collect two debts which Brutus...
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    Julius Caesar (category Correspondents of Cicero)
    in the Senate, among them Cato the Younger with the private support of Cicero. Caesar rose to become one of the most powerful politicians in the Roman...
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    not before 44BC. Cicero.Phil.2.48. Cicero.Phil.2.99. Cicero.Phil.2.77.8. Cicero.Phil.3.16. Weir, p. 7. Weir, p. 135. Welch, 194 Cicero.Phil.13.18. Appian...
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    Mark Antony (category Correspondents of Cicero)
    Sulla's march on Rome in 82 BC. According to the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero, Antony's father was incompetent and corrupt, and was only given power because...
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  • Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus (category Correspondents of Cicero)
    Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 29 (4): 422–437. JSTOR 4435732. Wiseman, T. P. (November 1968). "Two Friends of Clodius in Cicero's Letters"...
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    century BC. The distinction between the terms is most clearly established in Cicero's Pro Sestio, a speech given and published in 56 BC, where he framed the...
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  • conspiracy was uncovered in early November 63 BC and he was denounced by Cicero he withdrew from Rome and went north into Etruria to join forces with his...
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    Archimedes' inventiveness. Cicero (106–43 BC) mentions Archimedes in some of his works. While serving as a quaestor in Sicily, Cicero found what was presumed...
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  • Marcus Tullius Tiro (category Cicero)
    then a freedman, of Cicero from whom he received his nomen and praenomen. He is frequently mentioned in Cicero's letters. After Cicero's death Tiro published...
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  • essay supposedly written by Quintus Tullius Cicero, c. 65-64 BC as a guide for his brother Marcus Tullius Cicero in his campaign in 64 to be elected consul...
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    later Romans came to view the Twelve Tables is captured in the remark of Cicero (106–43 BC) that the "Twelve Tables...seems to me, assuredly to surpass...
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    night goddess Nyx produced parthenogenetically. However, both Hyginus and Cicero add Erebus, Nyx's consort, as his father. In the myth of Tithonus, the mortal...
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    Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Watson, J.S. (tr.) (1871). Cicero on Oratory and Orators: With his Letters to Quintus and Brutus. London: Bell&Daldy. Cicero,...
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  • conspiracy... is fictitious". Waters, K. H. (1970). "Cicero, Sallust and Catiline". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 19 (2): 195–215. ISSN 0018-2311...
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  • populares, a move considered to be a surprising volte face by contemporaries: Cicero, for instance, remarks that 'the popular breeze carried Sulpicius, who had...
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  • prosecution by Cicero, whose accusations were so devastating that his defence advocate could only recommend that Verres should leave the country. Cicero's prosecution...
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    ancient world, the triple alliance was referred to with varying terms: Cicero, contemporaneously, wrote of "three men" (tris homines) exercising a regnum;...
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    Cicero, Pro Quinto Roscio Comoedo, 11. Cicero, In Verrem, i. 5, v. 7, 59. Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, xiii. 31. Cicero, Pro Cluentio, 56. Cicero...
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    Cicero, his younger brother Quintus Tullius Cicero (one of Julius Caesar's legates) and Marcus Favonius were all killed in the proscription. Cicero's...
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    organised "ferocious street demonstrations" to exert public pressure on Cicero, intimidating him into "giving a substandard performance", seeing Milo leave...
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    Wilson 2021, p. 284. Mitchell, TN (1971). "Cicero and the senatus consultum ultimum". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 20 (1): 49 n. 2. ISSN 0018-2311...
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    Pompey (category Correspondents of Cicero)
    by Cicero, a long-standing Pompeian ally. Despite this, the latter supported the populist politician Publius Clodius Pulcher in an attack on Cicero for...
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  • where Caesar received several properties at a low rate to give to Servilia, Cicero remarked, "It's a better bargain than you think, for there is a third (tertia)...
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    Eburones and massacred. Elsewhere, another Roman force under Quintus Tullius Cicero, younger brother of the orator Marcus, were wintering amongst the Nervii...
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    join their cause. However, the conspirators considered Cicero too cautious; at that time, Cicero was over sixty, and the conspirators thought he would...
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    determination. He is, however, simultaneously criticised by ancient writers such as Cicero and Livy for his popular policies and disregard of Roman traditions, particularly...
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