Cicero Flashcards
(24 cards)
Who did Cicero have to defend at the Triumvirate’s behest
Publius Vatinius, who was being prosecuted for electoral bribery
Aulus Gabinius, who had failed to stop him being exiled in 58 when consul, and was now being prosecuted for extortion.
When and how did Cicero become augur
53 BC, recommendation of Pomepy
Positive relationship between Cicero and Caesar in 54-53 BC
- Exchange of letters, even when Cicero was in Britan
-Caesar writes a work on analogy in rhetoric, dedicates it to Cicero
-Cicero helped Caesar with the planning of a new voting enclosure on the Campus Martinus.
Scullion on Cicero and the Triumvirate in the early 50s
Scullion on Cicero’s opposition to the Triumvirate: ‘He stuck to his constitutional principles, and rejected the Triumvirate’s attractive overtures.’
Cicero’s quaestorship
76 BC, Sicily, gained a reputation for fairness and integrity
Who was Cicero’s first wife
Terentia, married in 79 BC, an aristocratic Plebicbian family
Pro Risco Amerino
80 BC, defence of Sextus Roscius
When did Cicero deliver ‘on the consular provinces’?
56 BC
When did Cicero defend Gabinius on behalf of the Triumvirate?
56 BC
Quote from ‘On the Consular Provinces’
We should not recall a general who is serving the state well.
Scholarship - ambition and Verres trial
Scholar Taylor: ‘This was a crucial time in the career of Cicero, and it must be admitted that he would not have taken the case if he had not been convinced that it would further his career.’
Tone of 49 letter to Caesar
Similar to 62 to Pompey, he is amicitable but formal - Cicero intended for it to be published, and thus the letter acts as a public statement of Cicero’s own position
What are the main themes in Cicero’ s 49 BC letter to Caesar
Cicero’s aim for harmony, Cicero’s neutrality, Cicero’s relationship with Caesar
Paulie
Cicero worked for peace at any price
46 letter from Cicero to Paetus
‘we are his slaves’
Cicero under Caesar scholarship
Stockton: ‘Cicero was in a kind of limbo.’
Pro Marcello
46, Praising Caesar for his pardon of Marcellus: ‘unheard-of-clemency’, Caesar showed ‘incredible and almost godlike wisdom’
Tyrannicide was a self-defence scholarship
Tempest, To kill a tyrant was not just permissible, it was positively encouraged by the historical tradition
Two writings in 44 BC
De Ammicitia, De Officiis.
Justified tyranncide
justified war, if it was the only route to peace.
Grant
Catilirian conspiracy: ‘Cicero acted illegally.
Everitt
Cicero’s basic aim is ‘to restore traditional values.’
In the final to years, ‘he became willing to adopt unconstitutional methods.’
Parenti - Catiline
Cicero strove to restore the republic ‘in the manner of sulla’ and earn the ‘eternal gratitude [of the ‘boni’] and winning supreme glory for himself
Tempest
Tempest, Cicero had resolved to fight to the end rather than submit to tyranny
Cicero’s attack on Antony - 2nd Philippic
Accused Antony as vomiting in office when Caesar’s master of the horse
Accused him of kingly asperations
Likened him to catiline and clodius
