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 Speeches: de Haruspicum Responsis, pro Sestio, in Vatinium, pro Cælio, de                                 Provinciis Consularibus, pro Balbo.

55. Coss., Cn. Æt. 51. Elections at end of January Pompeius Magnus II.,             by an interrex. Speech in Pisonem. The M. Licinius Crassus II. de Oratore in three books. Cicero also engaged on the poem de Suis Temporibus.

Gabinius (proconsul of Cilicia) restores Ptolemy Auletes to the throne of Egypt for an enormous bribe and without authority from the senate.

Cæsar's first invasion of Britain.

Crassus starts for Syria before the end of his consulship.

54. Coss., L.               Æt. 52. Speeches: pro Plancio, ''pro Domitius Ahenobarbus,            Rabirio Postumo''. App. Claudius Pulcher. Cæsar's second invasion of Britain, in                                 which Q. Cicero is serving with him.

Death of Iulia (September).

Cicero, much against his will, defends Gabinius on a charge of peculation at the request of Pompey.

Cicero writes the de Republica.

Riots preventing elections between the parties of Clodius and Milo.

Quintus Cicero's gallant defence of his camp in Gaul.

53. Coss., Cn. Æt. 53. Elections still prevented by Domitius Calvinus,               riots till April. M. Valerius Messalla. Fall of Crassus and his son at Carrhæ. Cicero elected into the college of                                 augurs in place of the younger Crassus.

Elections for next year prevented by                                 riots.

52. Coss., Cn. Æt. 54. No elections possible till Pompeius Magnus,                 February 23rd. sole consul from February                    Clodius murdered on the Appian Way, 23rd to August                   January 17th. 31st; from Sep- Trial and condemnation of Milo under a new law brought in by Pompey.