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 consulship—quod cives indemnatos necavisset (see vol. i., p. 22).

Cicero declines a province.

Birth of Octavius (afterwards Augustus), September 23rd.

62. Coss., D.               Æt. 44. Quintus Cicero prætor. C. Iunius Silanus, L.               Iulius Cæsar prætor. Licinius Murena. Speeches pro Cornelio Sulla and ''pro Archia Poeta''.

Pompey reaches Italy on his return from the East at the end of the year.

P. Clodius said to have penetrated Cæsar's house in female disguise when Cæsar's wife and other matrons were celebrating the mysteries of the Bona Dea.

61. Coss., M.               Æt. 45. Trial and acquittal of P. Clodius. Pupius Piso Calpurnius, M. Valerius Messalla             Quintus Cicero proprætor of Asia. Niger. Pompey celebrates a triumph for the Mithradatic war (September 29th and                                 30th).

Cæsar proprætor in Spain.

60. Coss., L.               Æt. 46. Cicero writes a history of his Afranius, Q. Cæcilius            consulship in Greek (vol. i., p. 57), and Metellus. also a poem in three books.

P. Clodius, after his quæstorship in                                 Africa, seeks adoption into a plebeian gens in order to get the tribuneship.

Cæsar, returning from Spain to stand for the consulship, is prevented from triumphing by opposition of the senate. Pompey is discontented with the senate for not confirming his acta. The two form with Crassus the informal agreement known as the first triumvirate.

59. Coss., C.               Æt. 47. Pompey marries Iulia. Iulius Cæsar, M. Calpurnius Bibulus. Cicero opposed to Cæsar's agrarian law, refuses to be one of the vigintiviri for assigning lands, and declines a legatio offered by Cæsar.

Cæsar's laws passed in spite of the opposition of his colleague Bibulus.