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 76. Coss., Cn. Æt. 30. Cicero pleads many causes, Octavius, C. Scribonius          among others delivers the partly extant Curio. speech pro Roscio Comædo.

Elected quæstor.

Probable year of Tullia's birth.

75. Coss., L.               Æt. 31. Quæstor at Lilybæum in Octavius, C. Aurelius            Sicily, the prætor being Sext. Peducæus. Cotta. Cicero discovered the tomb of Archimedes at Syracuse (Tusc. v. § 64).

74. Coss., L.               Æt. 32. Cicero returns to Rome from Licinius, M. Aurelius            Sicily. He thinks that whatever ability Cotta. he had was then at its full maturity (Brut.                                 § 318).

73. Coss., M.               Æt. 33. Delivers the speech pro M. Terentius Varro,                 Tullio, of which a fragment remains. C. Cassius Varus. The beginning of the war of Spartacus.

72. Coss., L.              Æt. 34. L. Lucullus conducting the Gellius Poplicola,               Mithradatic war. The war of Spartacus Cn. Cornelius Lentulus           in Italy still continues, and both consuls Clodianus. suffer defeat.

71. Coss., Cn. Æt. 35. Spartacus defeated and killed Aufidius Orestes,                by Crassus. Pompey returns from Spain P. Cornelius Lentulus            after finishing the war with Sertorius, Sura. defeats the remnants of the rebels of                                 Spartacus, and celebrates a triumph.

Cicero perhaps delivered the speech pro Aulo Cæcina this year. He says that he was working hard during these three years (pro Planc. §§ 65-66), but we                                 have no record of what he was doing.

70. Coss., Cn. Æt. 36. Cicero elected ædile. Pompeius Magnus,                 He undertakes the prosecution of M. Licinius                       Verres, delivers Divinatio in Quintum Crassus Dives. Cæcilium and in Verrem actio prima. The five books of the Actio secunda in Verrem were not delivered, but were written and published.

Birth of Vergil.

69. Q. Hortensius,          Æt. 37. The ædileship. He says that Q. Cæcilius                      he was economical in the three games Metellus Criticus. which he gave as ædile. The speech pro Fonteio probably belongs to this year.

Cicero purchases a villa at Tusculum.

Marriage of Quintus to Pomponia.