The Life of Cicero, Volume One

Chapter 41: END OF VOLUME I.

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A comprehensive biography traces the subject's education and rise through the legal and political ranks, covering early pleadings, municipal and magistral offices, major trials and orations, the Catilinarian crisis, entanglement with the Triumvirate, and exile. Narrative chapters are paired with analysis of his philosophical writings on duty, friendship, and old age, and close readings of his rhetorical craft. The author evaluates a mix of public virtue and personal ambition, acknowledging intellectual brilliance and moral earnestness while also examining inconsistencies, vanities, and domestic failings, and supplies appendices and supporting materials for readers seeking further context.

287 Ad Att., lib. i., 8.

288 Horace, Epis., lib. ii., 11. The translation is Conington's.

289 Vell. Pat., lib. i., xiii.

290 "Civile;" when Sulla, with Pompey under him, was fighting with young Marius and Cinna.

291 "Africanum;" when he had fought with Domitius, the son-in-law of Cinna, and with Hiarbas.

292 "Transalpinum;" during his march through Gaul into Spain.

293 "Hispaniense;" in which he conquered Sertorius.

294 "Servile;" the war with Spartacus, with the slaves and gladiators.

295 "Navale Bellum;" the war with the pirates.

296For the full understanding of this oft-quoted line the reader should make himself acquainted with Cato's march across Libya after the death of Pompey, as told by Lucan in his 9th book.