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 tember 1st, Q.               Speech pro Milone. Cæcilius Metellus Pius Scipio. Cicero writes de optima genere Oratorum and begins the de Legibus.

Quintus comes home from Gaul.

51. Coss., Servius          Æt. 55. Cicero proconsul in Cilicia, Sulpicius Rufus,                 accompanied by his brother Quintus, his M. Claudius                      nephew Quintus, and his son Marcus. Marcellus. Tullia married to Dolabella.

Discussions at Rome as to whether Cæsar shall stand for the consulship without giving up his province and army.

Alarm of an invasion of Syria by the Parthians. Two legions withdrawn from Cæsar for Syria, but not sent.

Growing distrust between Pompey and Cæsar.

50. Coss., L.               Æt. 56. Cicero quits his province on Æmilius Paullus,                 July 31st, lands at Brundisium, November C. Claudius                      25th, and arrives at Rome, January 4th Marcellus (C.f.). of the next year.

Gaius Curio, tribune from December 10th, 51, accepts a large bribe from Cæsar and maintains his cause in the senate, preventing an appointment of a                                 successor to him in Gaul. On laying down his tribuneship, December 9th, 50, he goes at once to Cæsar at Ravenna and urges him to enter Italy in arms.

49. Coss., C.                Æt. 57. Cæsar crosses the Rubicon Claudius Marcellus               after the senate had rejected his proposal, (M.f.), L.                       conveyed by Curio on January 1st, and expelled Cornelius Lentulus               the tribunes Antonius and Cassius, Crus. who vetoed the decree ordering Cæsar to surrender his province. Cæsar in Spain Dictator sine Magistro           after March: Antony in charge of Italy. Equitum com. Cicero at first accepts the command of the hab. et fer. Lat., C.            Campanian shore, but on Pompey and the Iulius Cæsar. consuls abandoning Rome, he stayed at                                 Formiæ, hesitating whether to join Pompey, who left Italy on March 17th. He finally did so in June and was at Pompey's headquarters in Epirus for the rest of the year.