cicero fact test

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when was cicero alive

106-43

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what was his background

non aristocratic

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what are the three types of oratory

forensic

deliberative

epideictic

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how many of his speeches in the book he published survive

58

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what does cicero’s defence speech contain

5 forensic speeches

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what is in verrem against

the politically corrupt govenor of sicily, and Roman provincial goverment and whether roman senators have the excusive right to sit on juries

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in Catilinam

speeches agianist Catilinarian conspiracy

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what was De inmprio Cn Pempei

on the command of G Pempius

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what rank was his family

eques

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where roughly was he born

Arpinum

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when did cicero do his first case

25 (81)

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who did he loose to in his first case

Hortalus

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pro Marcellus

speech of cicero thanking ceasar for permitting return of rome his most implacable republican enemy

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what is Philippic 2

attack on mark anthony

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who did cicero serve under

Gnaeunus Poempeius Strabo

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what was cicero’s first criminal case

For Roscius of Ameria , who had been charged with murder of his father

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when did cicero study abroad

79 to 77

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when was he elected quaestor

76

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when was he elected plebeian

70

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when was he elected aedile

69

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when was he elected praetor

67

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when did he first give his first deliberative speech

66

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when was he elected consul

64

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what was cicero first four speeches

on the agrarian law

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what was the cataline plot

plot by leading figures of rome to overthorw the regime and cancel their debts

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who was the cataline plot lead by

Lucius Sergius Catilina

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why was Cicero action controversial

he executed 5 men for the plot illegaly

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when were the Cataline plot members executed

5 december

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when was Cataline army destroyed

62

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what is pro sulla

a speech defending newthew of dictator sulla for conspiracy

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what is Pro Archias

a speech defgending the Syrian poet, who was his former teacher, accused of assuming citizenship illegally

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what was the first triumpvirate

alliance with Crassus, Pompey

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what was the Clodius case

he was caught dressing up as a woman, and Cicero lost

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why was cicero exiled

Coldius with suport of Ceasar was elected as a tribune and passed a law against any illegal execution of roman citizemns

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How did Cicero revenge himself

by humiliating Coldia in court calling her a prositute

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what happened in 53

he was elected a place in College of Augurs

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what did cicero do in 51 to 52

governor of Cilicia

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IN Verrem date

70 BC (first hearing held on 5-13 August)

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What was the Law in Verrem

Cornelian law concerning extrotion

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What was the charge

misconduct as the govenor of sicily

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Who are the defence lawyers

Naisca, Sisenna, Hortalus

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who was Verres with orignally

Sulla in 84

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who did Sulla serve under in 80 -79

Dolabella and plundered Asia with him

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criminal courts were a battle ground b etween

senator calss and equestrian

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whos support did verres have

Metelli

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what was verres strategy against cicero

to prosecute another govenor and so delay, and if cicero cant come back in time they would drop the case and cicero would loose