Lustrum - full deck Flashcards
(213 cards)
1
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Part one
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Consul - 63BC
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Lustrum
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Five years
3
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Quote from JG Farrell book
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Siege of Krishnapur - “We look on past ages with condescension”
4
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What is pulled from the Tiber two days before Cicero is inaugurated as consul
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Body of a boy
5
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Magistrate responsible for keeping order
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Octavius, aedile of the plebs
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Octavius’s son
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Augustus (eventually)
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Where is the boy’s body kept
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Tiber island
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How old is the body
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Twelve - human sacrifice
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Who does the dead slave belong to
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Antonius Hybrida
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Who does Cicero ask about the human sacrifice
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Sanga - patron of Gauls
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What happens in Rome the day before Cicero’s inauguration (weather)
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Snow
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Who visits Cicero just before his inauguration
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Catulus, Isauricus, Hortensius and Rabirius
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Who is Rabirius charged with killing
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Saturnius
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What is the ancient charge being brought against Rabirius
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Perduellio - Treason
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What is the penalty for perduellio
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Crucifixion
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Who appoints the two judges for Rabirius’s trial
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Lentulus Sura
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Who does Sura appoint to try Rabirius
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Julius Ceasar and his cousin Lucius
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Who has laid the charge against Rubirius
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Labienus - tribune
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Where is Caesar’s house
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Street of shoemakers
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Caesar claims descent from …
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Venus
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Caesar’s daughter
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Julia
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Caesar’s mother
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Aurelia
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Women seen leaving Caesar’s house
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Postumia, wife of Servius Sulpicius
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Bronze in Caesar’s house
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Venus, by Myron
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Caesar's wife at this time
Pompeia
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First person to visit on inauguration day
College of Augurs
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Pularii
Keepers of the sacred chickens
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Augur that day
Quintus Caecilius Metellus CELER
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Celer's wife
Clodia
30
Where are new bills displayed
Outside the Temple of Saturn
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Who proposes the populist bill
Rullus - tribune (actually written by Caesar and Crassus)
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State land to be siezed
Campania
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Size of elected commission
Ten
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Generals awaiting triumphs
Quintus Metellus and Licinius Lucullus
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Cicero's refrain when spending money
Macedonia will pay
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Cicero's curule chair
Numidian ivory - 100,000s
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Where does the senate meet
Temple of Jupiter
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How many vestal virgins
Six
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How many pontiffs of state religion
Fourteen
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Sacrifice to Jupiter
White bull
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How does Cicero describe himself
New man
42
How does Cicero describe the populist bill
Dagger aimed at the heart of the republic
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Cicero's first law of rhetoric - a speech must contain at least one ...
surprise
44
What does Cicero give up during his inauguration speech
His province
45
What is held on the Alban Mount
Latin Festival
46
Highlight of Latin Festival
Swinging competition
47
What has been erected on the Field of Mars
Cross - Rabirius
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Nationality of Hybrida's murdered slave
Smyrnan
49
Who killed Hybrida's slave
Catiline - hammer
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Who does Hortensius discover actually killed Saturninus
Sceava - freed slave of Croton
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How does Cicero halt Rabirius's trial
Hauls down the flag on the Janiculum Hill
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Bridge across the Tibur
Sublician Bridge
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At the foot of the Janiculum ...
Crows of Juno
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Pontifex Maximus who dies
Metellus Pius
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Two candidates for Pontifex Maximus
Catulus and Isauricus
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Who wins the election for Pontifex Maximus
Caesar - 7 tribes, against Catulus (6), Isauricus (4)
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Celer's brother, Pompey's legate
Nepos
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Who has Pompey defeated in the east
Mithradates Eupator
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Thanksgiving for Pompey's victory
Ten days
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One dissenting vote against Pompey's thanksgiving
Cato
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Cato's household philosopher
Athenodorus Cordylion
62
Where is Pompey encamped
Petra
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What do they call Pompey in the east
Warden of Land and Sea
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Official residence of the Pontifex Maximus
Via Sacra
65
Who does Tiro see leaving Caesar's house
Crassus
66
Terentia has supervison of ...
Cult of the Good Goddess
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Good Goddess's temple
Aventine (snakes)
68
Who comes to tell Cicero of the plot against him
Unnamed mistress of Quintus Curio
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Where is Cicero's seaside villa
Formiae
70
Julius Caesar's new mistress
Servilia - wife of Julius Silanus
71
Cicero's bodyguards
Sextus brothers - Titus and Quintus
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Lucullus's palace on the Bay of Naples
Villa Cornelia
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Lucullus's slave girl
Agathe
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What does Lucullus call his largest eel
Pompey
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Lucullus's first wife
One of the sisters of Clodius (not Clodia)
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Lucullus's second wife
Sister of Cato
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Cicero's name for Clodia
Lady Ox-Eyes
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"If a fire is raised to consume my fortunes then I will put it out - not by water but by
demolition
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Where is Lucullus lodging prior to his triumph
Villa Publica, Field of Mars
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Consulship results (year following Cicero's)
Silanus and Murena
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Which of Catilina's military lieutenant disappears to raise troops
Manlius
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Phrase used to mock Cicero
"I have been informed"
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Who does Tullia marry
Gaius Frugi
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Cicero's guard dog
Sargon (Assyrian king)
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Who visits Cicero to tell of the plan to seize Praeneste
Crassus, Quintus Arrius
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Who plans to seize Praenestre
Manlius
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Which town does Manlius intend to seize on Catiline's behalf
Praenestre
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Who leaves the anonymous letters at Crassus's house telling of the plan to seize Praenestre
Cicero via Sositheus
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Who does Cicero persuade Crassus to help defend in court
Murena
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Who does Cicero ask to take charge of the defence again Manlius
Celer
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Sura's stepson
Mark Anthony
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Mark Anthony betrothed to
Antonia, daughter of Hybrida
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Catiline's first ancestor
Sergestus, companion of Aeneas
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Where does Catiline pretend to exile himself to
Massila (Marseilles)
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Quintus Metellus takes charge of
Apulia
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Who will come to kill Cicero for Catiline
Vargunteius and Cornelius
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Who comes to warn Cicero that Catiline is sending men to kill him
Rufus
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Rufus sent back to his father's house in
Interamna
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Who comes with reinforcements to stop the attack on Cicero's house
Atticus
100
What does Clodia send as a gift following the unsuccessful attack on Cicero's house
Basket of fruit
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Who vowed the Temple to Jupiter
Romulus - war against the Sabines
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Where is the Senate to convene
Temple of Jupiter the Protector
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Statue in the Temple of Jupiter
Scipio Africanus
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"How much longer, Catiline ...
... will you try our patience"
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Where is Catiline staying
House of Marcus Laeca, street of the scythe-makers
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Catiline leaves Rome with a silver eagle that once belonged to
Marius
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Who does Cicero ask to set up a trap with the Gauls
Sanga
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Who does Cicero want a Gaul to speak to
Publius Umbrenus, freedman of Lentulus Sura
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What does Cicero want to contact Umbrenus about
Organising an uprising of Gaulish tribes
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Tribe chosen to set up trap
Allobroges
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Trial of Murena, Consul-elect
Servius and Cato for prosecution, Cicero, Hortensius and Crassus for defence
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Murena's campaign manager
Clodius
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Who takes command of the army to go against Catiline
Hybrida
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Who does Cicero appoint as second in command to Hybrida
Petreius
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Who tells the Gauls of the plot
Capito (knight)
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Who is to call a public assembly and demand Cicero's arrest
Bestia
117
Who is to lead the death squad
Cethegus
118
Judge for Murena's case
Cosconius
119
Gauls to meet conspirators at ...
Fontinalian Gate
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Who is appointed to accompany the Gauls
Flaccus and Pomptinus, century from Reate
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Where is the ambush of the Gauls' expedition planned
Mulvian Bridge over the Tiber
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Password for the Mulvian Bridge
Aemilius Scaurus
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Knight carrying the letters
Titus Volturcius of Croton
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Senate to meet to discuss the conspiracy
Temple of Concordia
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Chief of the Allobroges
Catugnatus
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Cethegus's reason for having so many weapons
I am a collector of weapons
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What does Sura mean by "the lowest of the low"
Slaves
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Where does Cicero have to stay during the night of the Good Goddess
Atticus's house
129
Where are the prisoners strangles
Carcer
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Who suggests life imprisonment for the conspirators
Caesar
131
Who turns the vote to death for the conspirators
Cato
132
Conspirators executed
Sura, Capito, Statilius, Caeparius, Cethegus
133
What does Cicero say to the crowd in the forum
They have lived - Vixerunt
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Title bestowed on Cicero
Father of the Country - Pater Patriae
135
Where does Catiline make his past stand
Pisae
136
Who did the house on Victory Rise previously belong to
M Livius Drusus
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Who is in the house next door
Celer
138
What price does Crassus settle on for the Drusus house
3.5m
139
Which of the conspirators does Cicero defend for two million sesterces
Publius Cornelius Sulla
140
Cicero set up as third foreign-born king of Rome after
Tarquin and Numa
141
Who does Cicero approach to write his biography in epic verse
Archias and Thyillus
142
Who does Clodius marry
Fulvia
143
Where does Atticus go back to
Epirus
144
Who is discovered in Caesar's house on the night of the Good Goddess
Clodius
145
Why does Caesar divorce Pompeia after the night of the Good Goddess
Because the wife of the chief priest must be above suspicion
146
Which of Cicero's secretaries dies
Sositheus
147
How much does Pompey bring to the treasury from him campaign in the east
200 million sesterce
148
Who does Pompey propose to marry when he comes back from the east
A niece or daughter of Cato
149
What does Pompey's daughter quote to his on his return
Helen to Paris - Homer "You came back from the war. I wish you had died there"
150
Nefas
Impious deed, sin, etc - Clodius
151
Penalty for violating the sanctity of the vestal virgins
Beaten to death
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Where does the senate convene to greet Pompey
Temple of Bellona
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Entrance to Apollo's shrine at Delphi
Know thyself, Desire nothing too much, Never go to law
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Who is providing Clodius with an alibi
C Causinius Schola from Interamna - 90 miles from Rome
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Who does Cicero know from Interamna
Caelius Rufus
156
Chief prosecutor of Clodius
Lentulus Crus
157
Defending Clodius
Curio
158
Vote in Clodius's trial
31 to 25 for acquittal
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Which aged senator dies in Cicero's house during a conference following Clodius's acquittal
Catulus
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Where is Clodius to go as a junior magistrate
Sicily
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Where does Quintus go to govern
Asia
162
Pompey's cloak
Alexander the Great
163
Pompey's new nickname
The Pharaoh
164
What is Pompey building on the Fields of Mars
Theatre
165
Metelli's family symbol
Elephant
166
Cato conducts his business under a bust of ...
Zeno
167
Tribune Pompey turns to to propose bill
Fulvius
168
Proposer of bill asking the people whether Clodius should be a pleb
Herennius
169
Who draws the ballot for Further Gaul
Celer
170
Who proposes three days of thanksgiving for Caesar's acheivements in Span
Crassus
171
Caesar's vote for consul ...
unanimous
172
Caesar's Spanish engineer
Balbus - born in Gades
173
Official commission for land reform proposed by Caesar
20, inner commission of five - Caesar, Pompey, Crassus, Cicero and ?
174
Triumvirate (first)
Caesar, Crassus, Pompey - Beast with three heads
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Who does Caesar have removed from the Senate and imprisoned
Cato
176
Caesar's fellow consul who stands against land reform
Bibulus
177
Tribune for triumvirate - ugliest man in Rome
Vatinius
178
Who does Cicero have to defend in the treason court
Hybrida
179
Who is prosecuting Hybrida
Caelius Rufus
180
Qualification for land reform
More than three children
181
Senators made to swear they won't repeal land reform act on ...
Sacred stone of Jupiter
182
Judge in the treason court for Hybrida's trial
Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus
183
Region Hybrida is accused of losing
Histria - lower Danube
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Who defeats Hybrida's forces on the Danube
Basterns
185
Triumvirate's surrogates
Balbus for Caesar, Afrianus for Pompey, Arrius for Crassus
186
Votes in Hybrida's trial
47 for condemnation, 12 for acquittal
187
Who arranges for Clodius to become a pleb
Caesar
188
Who has replaced Catulus in the college of priests
Crassus
189
Who adopts Clodius so he can be a pleb
Publius Fonteius
190
Provinces granted to Caesar for five years
Lower Gaul and Bithynia
191
How is Celer presumed to have died
Poison (Clodia, his wife)
192
Who is seen with Clodia after Celer dies
Caelius Rufus
193
New Cicero property
Antium
194
Claudian family estate
Solonium
195
Book Cicero writes - fourth version of autobiography
The Secret History of my Consulship
196
Where is the Secret History to be buried
Between hornbeam and ash
197
Where has Pompey tried to send Clodius
Armenia
198
What news does Atticus send from Rome to Formiae
Pompey has married again
199
Who has Pompey married
Julia - Caesar's daughter
200
Cicero's wedding gift to Pompey
Silver dish
201
Who becomes governor of Further Gaul following the death of Celer
Caesar
202
How many legions does Caesar have
Five
203
Who does Caesar force to apologise to him in the senate on his knees
Lucullus
204
Who does Caesar marry
Calpernia - daughter of Lucius Calpernius Piso
205
What post does Caesar offer Cicero in Gaul
Legate
206
Clodius's bill proposes to give every citizen
monthly dole of bread
207
How much is the dole to cost the treasury
100 m a year
208
Cicero's tame tribune to veto the bill
Ninnius Quadratus
209
Clodius's man of affairs
Cloelius
210
Which temple is disfigured by Clodius's followers and used as a headquarters
Castor
211
What does Clodius's bill forbid anyone to offer Cicero
Fire and water
212
Cicero's most valuable possession
Citrus-wood table, 500,000s
213
Who does Cicero try to see to ask help from?
Pompey
