Post Exile

Question 1

Relationship with Pompey

Answer 1

pompey seemed prepared to work closely with him
named him his second self
Cicero first among his legati

Question 2

Pompey’s hopes to increase his power

Answer 2

looking for the control of the Roman corn supplies (serious food shortage in Rome)

Question 3

Cicero’s aid of Pompey

why it didn’t work

Answer 3

proposed a special commission would be given to Pompey for the Roman corn supply
A tribune called Messius proposed another bill that Gave Pompey far greater powers that those suggested in Cicero’s bill

Question 4

Clodius’s power

Answer 4

appointed Aedile for 56Bc

Question 5

Problems for the Triumvirate

Answer 5

Pompey and Crassus were openly quarreling

Question 6

Cicero’s attempts to force a breach in the TRiumvirate

Answer 6

attacked one of Caesar’s bills in the senate to force a breach between Caesar and Pompey

Question 7

Conference at Luca

Answer 7

56BC

the Triumvirate and 120 supporting senators met at Luca

Question 8

Outcome of the conference at Luca for Crassus and Pompey

Answer 8

Pompey and Crassus were to be Consuls for 55BC (enabling them to have military careers after their year)

Question 9

Outcome of the conference at Luca for Caesar

Answer 9

Caesar had his command in Gaul renewed for a further five years (there had been talk in the senate about recalling him)

Question 10

Outcome of the conference at Luca for Cicero

Answer 10

told to stop opposing the Triumvirate

end of his importance as a political force

Question 11

Cicero shows support for the Triumvirate after Luca

Answer 11

wrote something (possibly a public letter) where he outlined his new position, one of support for all that Pompey and even the other two might do
HIS PALINODE

Question 12

Cicero’s Palinode

Answer 12

a withdrawal of his previous views. and a statement of his new ones
“I shall make sure that I win the affection of those who are in power”

Question 13

What Cicero occupied himself with after Luca

Answer 13

produced some major works on oratory and the state
had to defend friends of Caesar and Crassus (previous bitter enemies)
“I turn back to the kind of life I most enjoy, books and studying”

Question 14

55BC (pompey and Crassus)

Answer 14

Pompey and Crassus were mainly concerned with their Provinces (spain, Syria)

Question 15

end of 55BC (Pompey and Crassus)

Answer 15

Crassus set of for the east
Pompey stayed in Italy looking after the corn supply
was not allowed into the city of Rome, could keep his troops under arms