Cicero (56 page)

24
“According to the custom of our ancestors”
Mod Dig
XLVIII 9 9
“He comes down from his mansion”
Rosc XLV 132–35

25
“Terentia was never at any time”
Plut Cic XX 2

26
“I was at that time very slender”
Brut XCI 313

27
“we have learned from them”
Leg II 36
C “planned that, if he were finally deprived”
Plut Cic
IV 2

28
“not only a pleader”
Brut XCI 316

The story of Cicero's early political career derives from Plutarch, his speeches and the correspondence with Atticus.

29
“Just as in the music of harps”
Rep II 42

30
“When I was Quaestor”
Tusc V XXIII 64–66

31
The incident at Puteoli
Planc XXVI, XXVII

32
“his hair swept back in a kind of wave”
Plut Pomp II 1/2

33
“Today the eyes of the world”
Verr I 16 46–47
“I am afraid I'm no good at solving riddles”
Plut Cic VII 6

34
C's jokes at the Verres trial
Plut Cic VII 4–5
“Gentlemen of the jury”
Verr II 8 22

35
“It is the judge's responsibility”
Off II 51
“my brother, Quintus”
Att
I
(I 5)

36
“All the pleasure”
Att
I
(I 5)
“I am delighted with my place at Tusculum”
Att 2 (I 6)
C's citrus table
Pliny XIII 91
C's estimate of his income
Phil II 16

37
“You know the game I am playing”
Att 10 (I 1)

38
“Such is his unbelievable, superhuman genius”
Imp Pomp XIII 37
“My handling of C. Macer's case”
Att 9 (I 4)

39
“both that he did not assault the standing”
Asc: Pro Cornelio argumentum

The account of the Catilinarian conspiracy is largely based on Sallust, Cicero's Catilinarian speeches and Asconius, together with Appian and Dio Cassius for the general picture.

40
“People naturally prefer you to lie”
Comm 48

41
“No one has ever had such a talent for seducing young men”
Cat II 4 5
“debauchees, adulterers and gamblers”
Sall Cat XIV
2ff.
“There are shouts and screams”
Off 1

42
“Catilina had many excellent qualities”
Cael V 12
Catilina's first “conspiracy” is a mysterious affair; for further discussion see Gelzer, pp. 38ff. and S. A. Handford (Sallust,
Jugurthine War
and
Conspiracy of Catiline)
, pp. 164ff.

43
“We have the jury we want”
Att 11 (I 2)
“Can any man be a friend”
Asc: In toga candida

44
“I assert”
Asc: In toga candida

45
“What I assert”
Rab XII 332–34
“I see two bodies”
Plut Cic XIII
4–5

46
Catilina reported to sacrifice a boy,
Dio XXXVII 147/149

47
“quite overcome by the news”
Plut Cic XV
2

48
“I am able to report”
Cat I iv 8

49
“I do not intend”
Sall Cat XXXVI 1
f.

50
“But I must change my tone”
Mur XXXV 74

51
“Imprisonment, [Caesar] says”
Cat IV iv 8
“ought to distribute the accused around the towns of Italy”
App II 6

52
“sluggish of comprehension”
Plut Cat I 3
“If we could afford”
Sall Cat LIII 4

The events leading to Cicero's exile are covered by various lives of Plutarch, Dio and, to a lesser extent, Appian but, increasingly, by Cicero's letters, which now begin to be available in large numbers. Cicero's speech
In Defense of Caelius
throws a brilliant light on the Clodian circle.

53
“One could not attend the Senate”
Plut Cic XXIV 1–2
“This unpleasing habit of his”
Plut Cic XXIV 2
“a certain foolish vanity”
Att 38 (II 18)

54
“I swear to you”
Plut Cic XXIII 2

55
“This district, let me tell you, is charming”
Att 392 (XV 16a)

56
“I imagine you have heard”
Att 12 (I 12)

57
“passion for fornication”
Sall Cat XIII 3–5

58
“at the cross-roads”
Catull 58
“You [Mark Antony] assumed a man's toga”
Phil II 18 44–45

59
“Silver-tongued among the sons of Rome” Catull 49

60
“When the day came for the bill to be put”
Att 14 (I 14)
“Inside a couple of days”
Att 16 (I 16)

61
Cicero's jokes at Clodius's expense
Att 16 (I 16)
and
21 (II 1)

62
“as if he were coming back from a foreign holiday”
Plut Pomp XLII 3

63
“He professes the highest regard for me”
Att 13 (I 13)

64
“Life out of uniform”
Plut Pomp XXIII 4
“I need 25 million sesterces”
App II 8

65
“I brought the house down”
Att 14 (I 14)
The description of Pompey's Triumph is based on Plutarch's life of him but also draws on some material from his life of Aemilius Paulus.

66
“Giving up all attempts to equal Pompey”
Plut Crass VII 2
“The demand was disgraceful”
Att 17 (I 17)
“the dregs of the urban population”
Att 19 (I 19)

67
“AS
for our dear friend Cato”
Att 21 (XI 1)

68
“those conspirators of the wine table”
Att 16 (I 16)
“had used up the entire perfume cabinet of Isocrates”
Att 21 (II 1)
“What I most badly need at the present is a confidant”
Att 18 (I 18)

69
“I trusted and indeed convinced myself”
Att 17 (I 17)

70
“Meantime the paths” Att 23 (II 3)

71
“When I notice how carefully arranged his hair is”
Plut Caes IV 4

72
Cato's arrest
Dio XXXVIII 2–3

73
“Let us wait then”
Plut Cic XXVI 3
“the Queen of Bithynia”
Suet I 49

74
“I have taken so kindly to idleness”
Att 26 (II 6)
“When I read a letter of yours”
Att 35 (II 15)

75
“I have so lost my manly spirit”
Att 34 (II 14)
“Sampsiceramus … is out for trouble”
Att 37 (II 17)

76
“Dear Publius is threatening me”
Att 39 (II 19)
“For himself he wanted a high command”
Sall Cat LIV

77
“all Catilina's forces”
Post red XIII 33

78
“the Senate met to pass a vote”
Plut Cic XXXI 1

79
“could not face seeing him”
Plut Cic XXXI 2–3

Appian and Dio Cassius continue to give the general background with Plutarch providing additional color. (Also, with Caesar's growing prominence, Suetonius's life of him begins to be useful.) Cicero's letters and speeches are the crucial resource. For Clodius's death Asconius is more to be trusted than Cicero's almost completely unreliable account in his defense of Milo. Quintus's adventures in Gaul are taken from Caesar's
Conquest of Gaul
.

80
“I miss my daughter”
Quint 3 (I 3)
“Has any man ever fallen”
Att 55 (III 10)

81
“I will only say this”
Att 54 (III 9)

82
“The Tiber was full of citizens' corpses”
Sest LVII

83
“From your letter and from the facts themselves”
Att 72 (III 27)
“by which I did not simply return home”
Dom XVIII 75

84
“It is a sort of second life”
Att 73 (IV 1)
“heavy with wine … talking with him”
Post red VI 13–14
praise of Pompey
Post red II 5
“The decree was read out”
Att 73 (IV 1)

85
“Those same gentlemen”
Att 74 (IV 2)
“On November 11”
Att 75 (IV 3)
“My heart is high”
Att 75 (IV 3)

86
“Pale with fury”
Quint 7 (II 3)

87
“My refutation”
Cael XIII 32

88
“The Germans' left was routed”
Bell gall II 2

89
“Ah, just the man I want”
Quint 20 (I 9)

90
“Come on! Do you really think”
Att 80 (IV 5)
“These years of my life”
Quint 25 (III 5)
“I was weary of it”
Fam 24 (VII 1)

91
“After all, what could be more humiliating”
Att 83 (IV 6)
“I believe in moving with the times”
Fam 20 (I 9)

92
“talked to me at length”
Quint 10 (II 6)
“Those shelves of yours”
Att 79 (IV 8)
“But seriously, while all other amusements”
Att 84 (IV 10)

93
“perfidy, artifice and betrayal.… Waive the laws of history”
Fam 22
(V 12)
“What pleasure”
Fam 24 (VII 1)

94
“the first gladiatorial show”
Val Max II 4 7

95
“What pleasure can a cultivated man”
Fam 24 (VII 1)
“Caesar's friends”
Att 89 (IV 16)

96
“Pompey is putting a lot of pressure on me”
Quint 21 (III 1)

97
“In all the world Caesar is the only man”
Fam 25 (III 5)
“Cicero himself, although in very poor health”
Bell gall VI 2

98
“Escaped from the great heat wave.… I was very pleased with the house”
Quint 21 (III 1)
“Our affairs stand as follows”
Quint 23 (III 3)

99
“a friend to us”
Fam 44 (XVI 16)

100
“See about the dining room”
Fam 185 (XVI 22)
“My (or
our
) literary brainchildren”
Fam 43 (XVI 10)
“Aegypta arrived today”
Fam 42 (XVI 15)
Tiro “is extraordinarily useful to me”
Att 128 (VII 5)
“Well, you are a man of landed property!”
Fam 337 (XVI 21)

101
“When we inherited the Republic”
Rep V
I
2

102
“The government was so administered”
Rep II 32 56

103
“ ‘is the highway to heaven' ”
Rep VI 16
“Law is the highest reason”
Leg I 6 18–19

104
“Virtue is reason completely developed”
Leg I 16 45
“science of distinguishing.” … The mind “must employ”
Leg I 24 62
“The most foolish notion of all”
Leg I 15 1
“two officeholders”
Leg III 3 8
votes cast should be scrutinized by the “traditional leaders of the state”
Leg III 15 33
“everyone knows that laws”
Leg III 15 34

This chapter relies on Cicero's correspondence with Caelius and Plutarch. Appian, Dio and the others set the larger scene. The opening discussion on the date that Caesar's Gallic governorship came to an end and his legal predicament is tracked in Matthias Gelzer and examined by John Carter in Appian, 409–10.

105
“Caesar had long ago decided”
Plut Caes XXVIII 1–2

106
“My one consolation”
Att 95 (V 2)

107
“When we arrived”
Att 94 (V 1)

108
“I leave him in the most patriotic frame of mind”
Att 100 (V 7)

109
Pompey “is apt to say one thing, and think another”
Fam 77 (VIII 1)
“The creatures are in remarkably short supply”
Fam 2 (II 11)
“When all's said, … this isn't the kind of thing”
Att 108 (V 15)

110
“forlorn and, without exaggeration.… In a phrase”
Att 109 (V 16)

111
“Malicious persons”
Fam 69 (III 6)
“Your army is hardly capable”
Fam 83 (VIII 5)

112
“My best resource is winter”
Att III (V 18)

113
“On October 13 we made a great slaughter”
Att 113 (V 20)
“A merry Saturnalia was had by all”
Att 113 (V 20)

114
“Our Consuls are paragons”
Fam 88 (VIII 6)
“What he wants”
Att 355 (XIV 1)

115
“I shall be sorry to have incurred his displeasure”
Att 115 (VI 1)
“He is apt in his letters to me”
Att 115 (VI 1)
“My dear Atticus”
Att 116 (VI 2)
“I shall keep him on a tighter rein”
Att 113 (V 20)