Cicero Flashcards
(31 cards)
Father/ brother
Marcus, quintus
Born
January 3rd 106BC
Quaestor
Age 30
Responsible for finance and logistics
Easy to steal money
Tribunus plebis
Plebeian only
At least a quaestor first
Power of unlimited veto
Aedilis
Age 32
In charge of public works and games.
Praetor
Imperium
Age 34 for patricians, 36 for plebeians
Serve as judges of the courts
Propraetor
Imperium
Governor of a provincial colony where no army was needed.
Consul
Age 42
Imperium
Head of state
Could punish absolutely outside the city
Proconsul
Governor in an area where an army was stationed
Term is 1-5 years
Censor
Ex consul for 18 months every 5 years
Organized census and could remove senators from the senate
Moves to Rome
98BC
Joins army
90BC
Comes home
87BC
Scaevola
Trains for 6 years as a lawyer after military service
Series of cases that cause him to leave town because of conflict with Sulla
84/80BC
Arrives at Athens
79BC and studies under Apollonius Molo
Returns home from Athens
77BC
Elected quaestor
76BC
Prosecutes Verres
70BC
Elected Aedelis
69BC
Elected praetor urbanus
67BC
Runs for and elected consul
64/63BC
Cicero discovers the catilinaraian conspiracy
October 63BC
Awarded triumph
November 63BC