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 Cæsar leaves Rome for Spain, December 1st.

45. Dict. r. p. c.,         Æt. 61. Death of Tullia about the end C. Iulius Cæsar                  of February. III. Coss., C. Iulius Cæsar IV. Cicero retires for some months to Astura, sine coll. where he composes a Consolatio which is not extant.

Victory of Cæsar at Munda, March 17th.

Q. Fabius Maximus,               Cæsar returns to Rome early in mort, C. Trebonius. October. His triumph.

C. Caninius Rebilus. Cicero composes the de Finibus, the

Academica—first in two books and then in four.

Speech pro Deiotaro (before Cæsar).

44. Dictator               Æt. 62. At the beginning of the year r.p.g.c., C. Iulius              Cicero employed in finishing the Cæsar. Mag. Eq.,                 Tusculan Disputations. M. Æmilius Lepidus III., C. Octavius,               March 15th Cæsar murdered in the Cn. Domitius                     senate-house. Calvinus. March 17th in a meeting of the senate Cæsar's acta are confirmed.

In April Octavius (Augustus) arrives.

Coss., C. Iulius                 Antony causes the senate to alter the Cæsar, occis., M.         arrangements for the provinces made by Antonius. Cæsar—so that finally Syria is assigned to Dolabella instead of Cassius, Gallia P. Cornelius Dolabella. Cisalpina to himself instead of Decimus Brutus, and Macedonia to Gaius Antonius, his brother, instead of M. Brutus.

Cicero keeps away from Rome till the end of August, and composes ''de Natura Deorum, de Divinatione, de Fato, de Senectute'', de Amicitia, de Gloria, de Officiis (to                                 his son), Topica. He resolved to go to                                 Athens to visit his son, but was delayed by bad weather, gave up his purpose, and returned to Rome, August 31st.

September 2nd, delivers the first speech against M. Antonius (First Philippic).

Antony replies on September 19th, whereupon Cicero writes the Second Philippic, which was never delivered.