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 82. Coss., C.               Æt. 24. The dictatorship of Sulla. Marius, Cn. Papirius             Cruel proscriptions. Gnæus Pompeius Carbo III. Magnus distinguishes himself in the cause of Sulla. Cicero again attends the lectures of Molon, who came to Rome on a                                 political mission (Brut. § 312).

81. Coss., M.               Æt. 25. Sulla's legislation. Pompey Tullius Decula,                  celebrates a triumph for his campaign in Cn. Cornelius Dolabella. Africa over the king of Numidia.

Cicero's first extant speech pro P. Quinctio.

80. Coss., L.               Æt. 26. Speech ''pro Sext. Roscio'' Cornelius Sulla                  Amerino on a charge of parricide. II., Q. Cæcilius Metellus Pius. Cilicia made a Roman province.

79. Coss., P.               Æt. 27. Abdication of Sulla. Servilius Vatia Isauricus, App. Cicero delivers a speech in defence of Claudius Pulcher. the freedom of an Arretine woman against Cotta, which is not extant. He then sets out on a tour in Greece and Asia. At                                 Athens he attends the lectures of Antiochus of Ascalon, head of the Fifth Academy, and the Epicureans Phædrus and Zeno. He was accompanied by his brother Quintus and his cousin Lucius (de Fin. i. § 6; v. § 1), and finding Atticus there was with him initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries (de Leg. ii. § 36).

78. Coss., M.              Æt. 28. Death of Sulla. Æmilius Lepidus, Q. Lutatius Catulus. Cicero travels in Asia, where he was intimate with Menippus of Stratonice, Dionysius of Magnesia, Æschylus of Cnidus, Xenocles of Adramyttium—celebrated rhetoricians (see his criticism on                                 Asiatic oratory, Brut. §§ 51, 325; Orat.                                  § 27). He then goes to Rhodes and again attends the lectures of Molon (Brut. §                                 315) and Posidonius (de Fin. i. § 6).

77. Coss., Decimus          Æt. 29. Cicero returns to Rome. He Iunius Brutus,                   says that he came back much improved Mamilius Æmilius                 as an orator—non modo exercitatior sed Lepidus Livianus. prope mutatus (Brut. § 316).

He marries Terentia.

Pompey is sent against Sertorius.