Letter 6 Flashcards
1
Q
Date
A
5 or 6 may 51BC
2
Q
From
A
Cicero
3
Q
To
A
Atticus
4
Q
Important previous events
A
Clodius murdered
Cicero unable to defend Milo
Cicero on his way to his allotted province of Cilicia
5
Q
purpose
A
to ask for Atticus’s help
6
Q
asks him to make sure he doesn’t have to stay in Cilicia any longer
A
“make sure that no decrees are passed which would extend this unhappy separation beyond the statutory year”
7
Q
Moans about Pomponia (his brother’s wife, Atticus’s sister)
A
“your sister thoroughly acrimonious”
“she refused to sleep with him”
“allot of things…irritated me”
8
Q
He payed his debt to one of Caesar’s henchmen
A
“as regards to Oppius…in paying him with 800,000 sesterces”
