Cicero 70-60 BC

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  • Period: 70 BCE to 70 BCE

    Trial against Verres

  • Period: 69 BCE to 68 BCE

    biographical notes

    Cicero buys Sulla's house in Tusculum.
    First mention of Terentia (Att. I, 5, 6).
    C.'s father dies
  • Period: 67 BCE to 66 BCE

    Cicero is elected praetor for the year 66 BC: he chairs the court about official misconduct (quaestio de reptundis)

    Oratio De Manilio: Cicero supports C. Manilius Crispus, accused of extortion. (Pro Manilio, 65 BC) Cicero favors Pompeius (supreme command in the Mithridatic war and against the pirates).
  • Period: 65 BCE to 64 BCE

    biographical notes

    C.'s son Marcus is born. Catilina is prosecuted by Clodius (de repetundis). Cicero's Pro Catilina? C. devotes himself to the campaign for the consulship. He is ready to defend important men in the court (e.g. Q. Gallius, C. Fundanius, C. Cornelius) in order to get political support from their powerful sodalitates.
  • Period: 63 BCE to 63

    The Consulship

    C. is consul together with C. Antonius. He leaves to his colleague the province of Macedonia and gets the Gallia Cisalpina. Pro Rabirio perduellonis reo: the senator Rabirius, on Caesar's instigation, is accused of high treason (perduellio. The tribune Saturninus was killed). November/December: In Catilinam. Four speeches related to the conspiracy. November, 9 - December, 3 (Between In Catilinam II and III): Pro Murena. C. hinders Catilina's election > Licinius Murena elected consul
  • Period: 62 BCE to 62 BCE

    Other orations

    Pro Sulla: trial de vi. Sulla is accused of complicity with the Catilinarians. Cicero's popularity is decreasing: L. Manilius Torquatus keeps accusing him of the death sentence about the Catilinarians.
    In 62 BC, the Senate deprives C. of his right to speak first in that year's debates. Pro Archia: trial about the right of citizenship.
  • Period: 61 BCE to 60 BCE

    end of the decade

    C. strengthens his bond of friendship with Pompeius. 60 BC, spring: C. is quite absent from the political scene;
    summer: C. is threatened by Clodius. Poem about his consulship (fragments. C. quotes some lines from it in Att. II, 3, 4)