Cicero and Catiline Flashcards
Pompey abroad
Command against pirates - 67 bc; lex Gabinia
Command against Mithridates - 66bc; lex Manilia
Catiline
Lucius Sergius Catilina (108-62) Patrician Fought for Sulla in civil war Active in proscriptions Praetor in 68, propraetor in 67
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero Plebeian from Arpinum Military service under Strabo Quaestor in 75 Praetor in 66 Consul 63 NOVUS HOMO
Lead up to Catiline - 69 bc
Law preventing magistrates from dining on others’ expenses
Lead up to Catiline - 68 bc
Cilician command moved from Lucullus to Marcius Rex
Consular elections rife with bribery
Lead up to Catiline - 67 bc
L Roscius Otho, tribune, passes law granting rows of theatre seats to equestrians
A. Gabinius transfers Bithynia and Pontus from Lucullus to Glabrio
Lex Gabinia
Anti-bribery law passed during elections
66 bc
lex Manilia
Consular elections for 65 - P. Sulla and Paetus elected, accused of bribery, condemned and Catiline barred from standing in re-election
65 bc
Manilius is brought to trial for extortion abroad
Caesar invokes memory of Marius
Crassus as censor pushed for the annexation of Egypt
64 bc - reactions to Sulla
Caesar - connected to Marius (anti Sulla), quaestor 69 bc, aedile 65 bc
He is against Sullan laws
Agrarian law part 4/5/6?
P. Servilius Rufus, tribune 63 bc, proposed a land law in which the state uses funds from Popmey’s successes to buy land in Italy, deals with debt and eases Sullan legacy
Also a bill to reinstate P. Sulla and P. Autronius Paetus
Cicero the advocate
Cicero opposes the bill, Antonius supports. Cicero convinces the senate and then the people to oppose the bill
Main political themes of the 60s bc
Tribunes exercising power, fluidity in provincial commands, corruption and laws against bribery and extortion, reaction against Sullan legacy, growing rivalries
