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PREFACE
Letters in Volumes I-IV
Introduction
B.C. 68
. Coss., L.
Caecilius Metellus, Q. Marcius Rex.
B.C. 67
. Coss., C.
Calpurnius Piso, M. Acilius Glabrio.
B.C. 66
. Coss., M.
Aemilius Lepidus, L. Volcacius Tullus.
B.C. 65
. Coss., L.
Aurelius Cotta, L. Manlius Torquatus.
B.C. 62
. Coss., D.
Iunius Silanus, L. Licinius Murena.
B.C. 61
. Coss., M.
Papius Piso, M. valerius Messalla.
B.C. 60
. coss., Q.
Caecilius Metellus Celer, L. Afranius.
B.C. 59
. Coss., C.
Iulius Caesar, M. Calpurnius Bibulus.
B.C. 58
. Coss., L.
Piso, A. Gabinius: LETTERS IN EXILE
B.C. 57
coss., P.
Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, Q. Caecilius Metellus
Nepos.
B.C. 56
. Coss., Cn.
Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, L Marcius
Philippus.
B.C. 55
. Coss., Cn.
Pompeius Magus, M. Licinius Crassus
B.C. 54
. Coss., L.
Domitius Ahenobarbus, Ap. Claudius Pulcher
B.C. 53
. Coss. M.
Domitius Calvinus, M. Valerius Messalia.
B.C. 52
. from V Kal.
Mart., Coss. Cn. Pompeius Magnus (alone); from 1st
August, with Q. Metellus Scipio
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C
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1 The year of this letter has been inferred from the mention of Lentulus's augural banquet. For P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, son of the consul of B.C. 57, was in this year elected into the college of augurs. Yet as we know that Cicero's Tusculan villa was dismantled by Clodius, and was advertised for sale (though not sold), it seems rather extraordinary that Cicero should have gone there for his health. The Fadii Galli were a family of Cicero's native place, Arpinum.
2 There were several sumptuary laws. Those which may possibly be referred to here are (1) the lex Licinia (? B.C. 103), which defined certain foods as illegal at banquets, but excepted quod ex terra vite arbore ve sit natum (Macrobius, Sat. 211.17, 9; Gell. 2.24, 7); (2) the lex Aemilia (B.C. 68), which also defined both the quantity and quality of food allowable at banquets (Gell. 2.24,12).
3 C. Anicius, a senator and intimate friend of Cicero's.
Cicero. The Letters of Cicero; the whole extant correspondence in chronological order, in four volumes. Evelyn S. Shuckburgh. London. George Bell and Sons. 1908-1909.
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