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 =**Text Book **=

**__Birth__**
====Cicero was born with many talents. The nurse had a vision of him making a great deal to Rome. He was named after a bean because of the dent in his nose was shaped like a bean. His mother lived a fair life, and his father didn't have anything special.==== 

**__Sylla and Cicero__**
====Cicero fought on Sylla's side. He left for Greece to practice philosophy with famous Greeks. Cicero returned to Rome when Sylla won. Sylla's tone of voice was changing and people feared he was getting sick. Sylla died. Friends of Cicero urged him to return to public affairs.====

**__Cicero's Ruling__**
====Cicero was determined for political affairs. People thought Cicero could make Rome a more powerful place and admired him. Cicero went straight for the fame. He had big expectations for Rome. He couldn't make up his mind about the expectations because of certain political affairs. Cicero thought highly of himself and he made fun of people who couldn't speak well. People thought badly of him now. Cicero was put in charge of Sicily. He was thought as a bad ruler at first, but later they honored him. When people tried to give him any payments or gifts, he wouldn't except them. Cicero was getting bad health because he normally didn't eat until sunset. Cicero wanted to attack the conspirators. He threw out the old laws and overpowered the tribunes.====

**__Letters__**
====Cicero received letters from Titus and Croton. He read the letters to the Senate and it resulted as three consuls and four praetors were supposed to be killed. Cicero condemned some conspirators to death.====

**__Sixteen Months After Exile__**
Clodius was sent to trial for acts of violence. Cicero house s house and country place was to be rebuilt at the public's expense. Milo killed Clodius.

=Primary Source =

__Cicero's Ruling__
===="And now when Cicero, full of expectation, was again bet upon political affairs, a certain oracle blunted the edge of his inclination for consulting the god of Delphi how he should attain most glory, the Phythoness answered, by making his own genius and not the opinion of the people the guide of his life; and therefore at first he passed his time in rome cautiously, and was very backward in pretending to and ignorant people in Rome, of Greek and Scholar. But when his won desire of fame and the eagerness of his father and relations had made him take in earnest to pleading, he made no slow or gentle advance to the first place, but shone out in full lustre at once, and far surpassed all the advocates of the bar. At first, it to the instructions sometimes of Roscius the comedian. and sometimes of Aesop the tragedian. They tell he was so transported beyond himself in the beat of action, that he struck with his sceptre one of the afterwards was Cicero's delivery that it did not a little contribute to render his eloquence persuasive. He used to ridicule loud speakers, saying that they shouted because they could not speak, like lame men who get on horseback because they cannot walk. And his readiness and address in sarcasm, and generally in witty sayings, was thought to suit a pleader very well, and to be highly attractive, but his using it to excess offended may, and gave him the repute of ill-nature."====

Translated by John Dryden
**Cicero Timeline **  (Pg 1 Cicero Paper)
 * 1) *Cicero's mother lived a fair life, his fathers was nothing special
 * 2) *Parents named him after a bean plant because he had a dent in his nose
 * 3) *Cicero's parents thought he would be a child prodigy and live up to the prophecy's in the oracles.
 * 4) *People watched him learn in school
 * 5) *Friends encouraged him to change his name so people would take him seriously
 * 6) *Cicero wanted political power, and wanted to climb the political ladder
 * 7) *Thought to be the best poet and political speaker of Rome

 (Pg 2 Cicero Paper)
 * 1) *Fought with Sylla then retired to learn with famous Greeks
 * 2) *Left for Greece and came back when Sylla won
 * 3) *Cicero defended and protected people and their rights
 * 4) *People feared that Sylla was sick because of his tone of voice when he spoke
 * 5) *After Sylla's death friends of Cicero urged him to return to public affairs

 (Pg 3 Cicero Paper)
 * 1) *Determined for political affairs
 * 2) *Went straight for fame
 * 3) *Friends admire Cicero and think he can transform Rome into a more powerful place
 * 4) *Cicero had big expectations for Rome but couldn't make up his mind because of certain political affairs
 * 5) *Cicero made fun of people who couldn't speak well and thought way too highly of himself. This made people think badly of him
 * 6) *Cicero put in charge of Sicily. People thought he was a bad ruler at first but later honored him

 (Pg 4 Cicero Paper)
 * 1) *When Cicero undertook a job he wouldn't except payments or gifts
 * 2) *Cicero was suspected of taking bribery, he used peoples generosity to lessen the sum of provisions
 * 3) *Cicero never ate until sunset which gave him bad health

 (Pg 5 Cicero Paper)
 * 1) *People liked Manilius and was thought to be accused for Pompey's sake
 * 2) *At the time of Manilius' sentence he gave a speech in front of the Oligarchical party

 (Pg 6 Cicero Paper)
 * 1) *People unqualified of being in any public offices justified against the tyranny of Sylla
 * 2) *Pompey took money out of treasury to pay the soldiers what he thought they needed
 * 3) *Cicero wanted to attack the conspirators
 * 4) *Cicero threw out the old laws and overpowered the tribunes by his oratory

 (Pg 7 Cicero Paper)
 * 1) *Pompey was returning with his forces to Rome
 * 2) *Manilius joined with Catiline and assisted him with his suffrages
 * 3) *Crassus read that there was a slaughter intended by Catiline

 (Pg 8 Cicero Paper)
 * 1) *Cornelius was thrown out of the senate and for the second time help the place of Praetor
 * 2) *Cornelius bribed the judges and escaped death by two votes

 (Pg 9 Cicero Paper)
 * 1) *Titus and Croton took letters to Cicero
 * 2) *Cicero read the letters to the senate and as a result of this three consuls and four praetors were to be killed

<span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 2);"> (Pg 10 Cicero Paper)
 * 1) *Cicero overlooked the evidence he had against Caesar because of his friends and power

<span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 2);">(Pg 11 Cicero Paper) <span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 2);"> (Pg 12 Cicero Paper) <span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 2);">(Pg 13 Cicero Paper)
 * 1) *Cicero condemned Lentulus and other conspirators to death
 * 2) *Antonius was killed with the rest of his army in the battle of Catiline
 * 3) *Cicero withdrew from office
 * 4) *Caesar proposed that Pompey come home with his army to put an end to Cicero's usurpation
 * 1) *Cicero was publicly declared the father of his country
 * 2) *Cicero started to write books and fill them with praises for himself
 * 3) *Areopagus was requested by public votes to stay in Athens
 * 4) *After Manilius escaped he prosecuted his friend Saexilebinus
 * 5) *Crassus let everyone know he admired the Stoic Doctrine
 * 1) *Crassus made friends with Cicero because he didn't want to leave with him being his enemy

<span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 2);">(Pg 14 Cicero Paper)
 * 1) *Caesar had his wife put away and also had Clodius prosecuted for profaning the holy rights

<span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 2);">(Pg 15 Cicero Paper)
 * 1) *Cicero didn't give his testimony against Clodius, he said he wasn't convicted of his wife's adultery
 * 2) *Clodius attacked Cicero
 * 3) *Caesar went with an army into Gaul
 * 4) *Cicero completely changed the way he looked and went around to beg for peoples grace

<span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 2);">(Pg 16 Cicero Paper)
 * 1) *Clodius proposed to the people a decree of exile
 * 2) *Clodius drove Cicero away and then burned his farms and villa's

<span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 2);">(Pg 17 Cicero Paper)
 * 1) *Clodius was sent to trial for acts of violence
 * 2) *Cicero stated that his house and country places will b rebuilt at the public's expense
 * 3) *Cicero returned sixteen months after his exile
 * 4) *Milo killed Clodius

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