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Which speech of Cicero, delivered in 63 B.C., was against Cataline?

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In Catalinam

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What speech did Cicero give in 81 BC?

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Pro Quinctio

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Which speech of Cicero, given in 62 B.C., defended the citizenship of a Greek poet?

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Pro Archia Poeta

don’t put it on blue unless you knew the year!

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What speech did Cicero give in 70 B.C.?

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In Verrem

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What speech did Cicero give in 80 B.C.?

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Pro Roscio Amerino

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Which speech of Cicero, given in 56 B.C., defended a man against charges of poisoning brought forth by Clodia?

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Pro Caelio

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What speech did Cicero give in 52 B.C.?

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Pro Milone

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What speech did Cicero deliver in 44 and 43 B.C.?

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Philippics

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What speech did Cicero give in 77 B.C.?

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Pro Roscio Comoedio

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What speech did Cicero give in 72 B.C.?

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Pro Tullio

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Which speech of Cicero, delivered in 66 B.C., defended a man on the charges of poisoning Oppianicus?

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Pro Cluentio

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Which speech of Cicero, delivered in 66 B.C., was his first purely political speech?

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Pro Lege Manilia

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Which speech of Cicero, delivered in 63 B.C., combated an agrarian proposal designed to give ability to maneuver around Pompey?

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De Lege Agraria

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Which speech of Cicero, delivered in 63 B.C., defended an old knight on charges of killing Saturninus?

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Pro Rabirio Perduellionis Reo

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Which speech of Cicero, delivered in 63 B.C., was given in the interim of the first and second Catalinarians?

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Pro Murena

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Which speech of Cicero, delivered in 62 B.C., defended a man accused of involvement in the Catalinarian conspiracy?

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Pro Sulla

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What speech of Cicero was given in 59 B.C.?

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Pro Flacco

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Which speech of Cicero, delivered in 56 B.C., was against a creature of Caesar who was a witness against Sestio?

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In Vatinium

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Which speech of Cicero, delivered in 56 B.C., rejects Clodius’s claim that the suspicious noises around Rome were due to his house being rebuilt?

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De Hauruspicium Responso

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What speech of Cicero was given in 57 B.C.?

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De Domo Sua

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21
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How many In Catalinams are there?

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four

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Which speech of Cicero, delivered in 56 B.C., defended a man against a charge of vis brought by Clodius?

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Pro Sestio

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Which speech of Cicero, given in 56 B.C., was he forced to give up his efforts against Caesar and favor his command in Gaul?

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De Provinciis Consularibus

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24
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Which speech of Cicero, given in 56 B.C., defended the citizenship of a friend of Caesar and Pompey?

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Pro Balbo

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25
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What speech was given by Cicero in 55 B.C.?

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In Pisonem

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Which speech of Cicero, delivered in 54 B.C., defended the governor of Tessalonica on charges of electoral corruption?

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Pro Planco

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Which speech of Cicero, given in 54 B.C., defended a partisan of Caesar against charges of extortion?

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Pro Rabirio Postumo

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Which speech of Cicero, given in 45 B.C., defended an enemy of Caesar and asked to have him acquitted?

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Pro Ligario

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29
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Which speech of Cicero was given in 46 B.C.?

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Pro Marcello

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30
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Which speech of Cicero, given in 45 B.C., defended the tetrarch of Galatia on a charge of trying to murder Caesar?

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Pro Rege Deiotaro

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31
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What was Cicero’s first extant speech?

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Pro Quinctio

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32
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What was Cicero’s first criminal defense speech?

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Pro Roscio Amerino

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33
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Who hired Cicero to prosecute Verres and for what was he prosecuted?

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the Sicilians, and extortion

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34
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What was the result of the first In Verrem?

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it forced Verres to abandon his case and go into exile at Massilia

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35
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Where did Cicero deliver the first In Catalinam?

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the temple of Jupiter Stator

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36
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Which speech contains an eloquent panegyric of literature?

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Pro Archia Poeta

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37
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Which speech of Cicero, delivered in 54 B.C., defended Marcus Aemilius Scaurus against charges of extortion?

A

Pro Aemilio Scauro

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38
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In which speech of Cicero did he fail to successfully defend his client?

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Pro Milone

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39
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Who was Cicero defending in the Pro Milone and what was he charged with?

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Titus Annius Milo Pappianus on the charge of murdering Clodius Pulcher on the Via Appia

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40
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To where was Milo exiled?

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Massilia

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41
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How many speeches were in the Philippics?

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14 speeches

42
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What speeches were the Philippics based on?

A

the speeches of Demosthenes against Philip II of Macedon

43
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When did Cicero deliver the first In Catalinam?

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November 8

44
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When and where did Cicero deliver his first Philippic?

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September 2, 44 B.C., in the senate

45
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What was the last Philippic about?

A

it was a celebration of Antony’s defeat at Mutina

46
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Who did Cicero defend in his Pro Roscio Comoedio and on what charge?

A

he defended Roscius against the murder of the slave Panurgus

47
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The Pro Tullio was written on behalf of Marcus Tullius, who was involved in what dispute?

A

a dispute over property with his neighbor

48
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What was another name for the Pro Lege Manilia?

A

De Imperio Gnaei Pompeii

49
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In which speech did Cicero abdicate for Pompey’s power against Mithridates?

A

the Pro Lege Manilia

50
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What was another name for the De Lege Agraria?

A

Contra Rullum

51
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Who did Cicero defend in the Pro Murena and against what charges?

A

Lucius Murena against charges of bribery instigated by Cato Minor

52
Q

What work of Cicero was replaced by his later De Oratore?

A

De Inventione (both were written in 54 B.C.)

53
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In which speech did Cicero ask the College of Pontiffs to annul the consecration of his home site?

A

De Domo Sua

54
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Which treatise on rhetoric was written as a discussion between Marcus Antonius and Lucius Licinius Crassus?

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De Oratore

55
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When and where does the De Oratore take place?

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91 B.C. and in the Tuscan villa of Crassus

56
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How many books are in De Oratore?

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three

57
Q

Which rhetorical work did Cicero write for his son Marcius?

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Partitiones Oratoriae

58
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What work of Cicero serves as a preface to the lost translations of Aeschines and Demothenes?

A

De Optimo Genere Oratorum

59
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Against what charges did Cicero defend Flaccus in the Pro Flacco?

A

against charges of extortion

60
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What work of Cicero is a record of a conversation between himself, Marcus Junius Brutus, and Atticus about orators and eloquence?

A

Brutus (or De Claris Oratoribus)

61
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In which work does Cicero say an orator must be the master of three styles: plain, grand, and intermediate?

A

Orator

62
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To whom does Cicero address his Orator?

A

Marcus Brutus

63
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On whose work does Cicero base his Topica?

A

Aristotle’s

64
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Which work of Cicero is a discussion of political science between Scipio Aemilianus and Laelius?

A

De Re Publica

65
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Which work did Cicero begin in 54 B.C. and publish in 51 B.C.?

A

De Re Publica

66
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Which work is De Re Publica modeled on?

A

Plato’s Republic

67
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How many books are in the De Re Publica?

A

6

68
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Which work of Cicero contains the Somnium Scipionis?

A

De Re Publica

69
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Which work of Cicero serves as a sequel to De Re Publica?

A

De Legibus

70
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How many books are in Cicero’s De Legibus?

A

5 books

71
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Who are the main interlocutors in Cicero’s De Legibus?

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Cicero, his brother Quintus, and Atticus

72
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Where does Cicero’s De Re Publica take place?

A

the villa of Scipio Aemilianus in 129 B.C.

73
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Where does Cicero’s De Legibus take place?

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Cicero’s estate at Arpinum

74
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Which of Cicero’s philosophical works writes about the support of a principle in stoic thought?

A

Paradoxa Stoicorum

75
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To whom is Paradoxa Stoicorum dedicated and when was it written?

A

Brutus, 46 B.C.

76
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Which work of Cicero, published in 45 B.C., was a dialogue on the philosophical theories of knowledge?

A

Academia

77
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How many books are in Cicero’s Academia and what are they called?

A

2 books, Catulus and Lucullus (named after the chief interlocutors)

78
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To whom is the revised Academia dedicated?

A

Varro

79
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Which work of Cicero criticizes the ethical system of Epicurean and Stoic schools?

A

De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum

80
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Who are the representers of the three philosophies in Cicero’s De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum?

A

Torquatus (Epicurean), Cato of Utica (Stoic), and Calpurnius (Old Academy)

81
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How many books are in Cicero’s De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum?

A

5 books

82
Q

Which book of Cicero’s takes the form of conversations between characters M and A?

A

Tusculanae Disputationes

83
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Which work of Cicero, published in 45 B.C., is a treatise on the conditions of happiness in 5 books?

A

Tusculanae Disputationes

84
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How many books are in Cicero’s Tusculanae Disputationes and to whom are they addressed?

A

5 books, Brutus

85
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Which work of Cicero, written in 45 B.C., was a philosophical dialogue about the three Greek schools of thought?

A

De Natura Deorum

86
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How many books are in Cicero’s De Natura Deorum?

A

3 books

87
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Who are the chief interlocutors in Cicero’s De Natura Deorum?

A

Vellius (Epicurean), Balbus (Stoic), and Cotta (Academic)

88
Q

Which work of Cicero is set in Rome in 76 B.C.?

A

De Natura Deorum

89
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Which works of Cicero are sequels to De Natura Deorum?

A

De Divinatione and De Fato

90
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Which work of Cicero is a conversation between him and his brother in a villa in which Cicero refutes Quintus’s belief in fortune telling written in 44 B.C.?

A

De Divinatione

91
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Which work of Cicero, written in 44 B.C., was a treatise about the affect of fate on our decisions?

A

De Fato

92
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Who requested Cicero’s De Fato?

A

Hirtius

93
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Which work of Cicero, written in 44 B.C., portrays Cato the Elder telling Scipio Aemilianus and Laelius about old age?

A

Cato Maior De Senectute

94
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To whom does Cicero dedicate his Cato Maior De Senectute?

A

Atticus

95
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Which work of Cicero is a discussion of the nature of friendship between Laelius and Scipio Aemilianus’s two sons-in-law?

A

De Amicitia (or Laelius)

96
Q

What is Cicero’s last work?

A

De Officiis

97
Q

What form does De Officiis take?

A

a three book letter sent to his son Marcus (who was studying philosophy in Athens at the time)

98
Q

On whose teachings are the books of Cicero’s De Officiis based?

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books 1 and 2: Panaetius

book 3: Posidonius

99
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Which work of Cicero, written in 60 B.C., celebrates in victory over Cataline and is highly criticized?

A

De Consulatu Suo

100
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In which work is a large section of De Consulatu Suo preserved, and how many books of De Consulatu Suo were there originally?

A

De Divinatione, 3 books

101
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What was Cicero’s most successful poetic work?

A

Aratea, a translation of Aratus’s Phaenomena

102
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What work of Cicero, written in 45 B.C., was about the deaths of great men and his daughter Tullia?

A

Consolatio

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