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 48. Coss., C.               Æt. 58. Cicero remains at Pompey's Iulius Cæsar II.,                headquarters in Epirus for the first part P. Servilius Vatia               of the year, but was also invalided and Isauricus. retired to Dyrrachium for some time. After the battle of Pharsalia (August 9th), at which he was not present, he went on                                 board the fleet at Corcyra. But refusing to continue the war, he retired to Patræ; thence by special permission of Cæsar he                                 returned to Brundisium about the end of                                  October, where he remained till the following September.

Pompey murdered in Egypt (October).

Cæsar engaged in the Alexandrine war.

Cælius attempts a revolution and is                                 killed.

Antony after Pharsalia still in charge of                                 Italy as proprætor.

47. Dict. r.p.c.,           Æt. 59. Cicero remains at Brundisium C. Iulius Cæsar II. till Cæsar returns from Alexandria and Mag. Eq., M. Antonius. Asia (after battle of Zela). Coss., Q. Fufius Calenus, P.               Dolabella as tribune proposes revolutionary Vatinius. laws. Great riots at Rome.

Cicero returns to Tusculum, October 7th.

46. Coss., C.               Æt. 60. Cæsar attacks Cato and the Iulius Cæsar III.,               Pompeians in Africa. News of the battle M. Æmilius Lepidus. of Thapsus reaches Rome, April 20th. Cato kills himself at Utica.

Cæsar returns to Rome at the beginning of September. His four triumphs.

Cicero lives at Rome and his country villas.

Composes Paradoxa, Partitiones Oratoriæ, Orator, Brutus de Claris Oratoribus, Paradoxa. He also writes a panegyric on Cato, which is not extant.

He divorces Terentia at the end of the year.

Cæsar's reformation of the Calendar. Ninety extra days in this year.

Speeches: pro Marcello (in the senate), pro Ligario (before Cæsar).