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 APPENDIX B

DATES IN THE LIFE OF CICERO

106. Coss., C.              M. Tullius Cicero b. January 3rd (A.D. Acilius Serranus,                  Non. Ian.) at Arpinum (ad Att. vii. 5; Q. Servilius Cæpio                xiii. 42: vol. ii., p. 224; vol. iii., p. 349;                                  de Leg. ii. § 3). His father M. Tullius Cicero was of equestrian rank (de Pet.                                 § 13; pro Planc. § 59), of a plebeian gens of the tribe Cornelia (Brut. § 62). His mother's name was Helvia (Plut. Cic. i.;                                 Letter DCCCXI).

Iugurthine war finished by C. Marius as proconsul.

Cn. Pompeius Magnus b. September 30th.

1O2. Coss., C.              Æt.4. Birth of Quintus Tullius Cicero. Marius IV., Q.                   Destruction of the Teutones and Ambrones Lutatius Catulus. at Aquæ Sextiæ by C. Marius.

101. Coss., C.              Æt. 5. Defeat of the Cimbri near Marius V., M'. Aquilius. Vercellæ by Marius and Catulus.

100. Coss., C.              Æt. 6. The sedition in which the Marius VI., L.                   tribune L. Appuleius Saturninus was Valerius Flaccus. killed (pro Rabirio, § 18, sqq.).

91. Coss., L.               Æt. 15. Cicero takes the toga virilis. Marcius Philippus,               He writes a poem on Marius (de Leg. Sex. Iulius Cæsar.                i. ; vol. iii., p. 256).

90. Coss., L.               Æt. 16. The Marsic or Social war Iulius Cæsar, P.                 begins. Cicero begins a translation in Rutilius Rufus. hexameters of the Phænomena of Aratus.