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Cicero

Cicero, Roman orator and statesman. This site has 7 entries dated between 63 BC and 32 BC involving Cicero, listed in chronological order with the Roman date and calendar of each.

  1. November 1 · Kal. Nov. · Pre-reform Roman calendar
    Catiline's night attack on Praeneste foiled (63 BC)
  2. December 3 · a.d. III Non. Dec. · Pre-reform Roman calendar
    Catilinarian conspirators arrested (63 BC)
  3. January 18 · a.d. XV Kal. Feb. · Pre-reform Roman calendar
    Clodius killed on the Appian Way (52 BC)
  4. March 15 · Id. Mart. · Julian date · ≈ Mar 13 on our calendar
    Assassination of Julius Caesar (44 BC)
  5. April 14 · a.d. XVIII Kal. Mai. · Julian date · ≈ Apr 12 on our calendar
    Battle of Forum Gallorum (43 BC)
  6. December 7 · a.d. VII Id. Dec. · Julian date · ≈ Dec 5 on our calendar
    Murder of Cicero (43 BC)
  7. March 31 · pr. Kal. Apr. · Julian date · ≈ Mar 29 on our calendar
    Death of Atticus, Cicero’s friend (32 BC)
LATIN LINE OF THE DAY

Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura quae legis hic.

“Some are good, some middling, more are bad, of what you read here.”

Martial, Epigrams 1.16 · translation ours (literal)