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An account of the life and letters of Cicero
An account of the life and letters of Cicero Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The duration of his service, however, was probably but short; for in his Brutus1, he says expressly, that in the year before the Consulate of Sulla and Pompeius ... more »(666), he was diligently employed in the study of the civil law under the tuition of Scavola. A. U. 666. B. C. 88. ClC. 19. L. Cornelius Sulla ; L. Pompeius Eufus. The Social war is continued by L. Pompaedius Silo, who, however, is defeated, with the Samnite army, by Servius Sulpicius. Partly in consequence of this victory, and partly also because the anxiety inspired by Mithri- dates induces the Romans to extend the franchise to all Italy, the war is brought to an end. The Consul Sulla is entrusted with the province of Asia, and with the prosecution of the Mithridatic war. The tribune P. Sulpicius obtains, by violent means, a decree for enrolling the new citizens among all the thirty-five tribes. He deprives Sulla of his province and command, and transfers them both to Marius. Sulla flies to his army, leads it against Rome, and overthrows the Sulpician enactments. Sulpicius is killed. Marivis and his son are proscribed, and take to flight. Sulla now marches against Mithri- dates, who has made himself master of nearly the whole province of Asia. In this year the Academician Philo, with many Athenians of distinction flying from the disturbances consequent upon the Mithridatic war, comes to Rome, where Cicero devotes himself entirely to him, having embraced the study of philosophy with great ardour, since the ordi- 89.-, Ac nary forms of judicial process seemed to be entirely Jv.' destroyed.2 Meanwhile the harangues of the Tribune Sulpicius, which he heard daily, were important to him chapter{Section 4from the insight they gave him into the arts of Dema- A. U. 667. B. C. 87. Cic. 20. Cn. Octavius ; L. Corneli...« less