Cicero Flashcards

(31 cards)

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Father/ brother

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Marcus, quintus

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Born

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January 3rd 106BC

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Quaestor

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Age 30
Responsible for finance and logistics
Easy to steal money

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Tribunus plebis

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Plebeian only
At least a quaestor first
Power of unlimited veto

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Aedilis

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Age 32

In charge of public works and games.

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Praetor

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Imperium
Age 34 for patricians, 36 for plebeians
Serve as judges of the courts

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Propraetor

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Imperium

Governor of a provincial colony where no army was needed.

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Consul

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Age 42
Imperium
Head of state
Could punish absolutely outside the city

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Proconsul

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Governor in an area where an army was stationed

Term is 1-5 years

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Censor

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Ex consul for 18 months every 5 years

Organized census and could remove senators from the senate

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10
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Moves to Rome

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98BC

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11
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Joins army

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90BC

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12
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Comes home

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87BC

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13
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Scaevola

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Trains for 6 years as a lawyer after military service

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14
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Series of cases that cause him to leave town because of conflict with Sulla

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84/80BC

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15
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Arrives at Athens

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79BC and studies under Apollonius Molo

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Returns home from Athens

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Elected quaestor

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Prosecutes Verres

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Elected Aedelis

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Elected praetor urbanus

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Runs for and elected consul

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Cicero discovers the catilinaraian conspiracy

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Awarded triumph

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November 63BC

24
Bona Dea Scandal
62BC
25
Goes into exile
59BC to Thessalonica
26
Law exiling Cicero is repealed allowing him to return to the city.
57BC
27
Becomes proconsul of Asia Minor
End of 52BC
28
Cicero mysteriously divorces his wife
46BC after 35 years of marriage
29
Tullia his daughter dies from childbirth
45BC Cicero is devastated
30
Cicero dies
December 7 43BC