Chapter XXXI

INTERNAL HISTORY, FROM THE CONSULSHIP OF POMPEY AND CRASSUS TO THE
RETURN OF POMPEY FROM THE EAST: THE CONSPIRACY OF CATILINE.
B.C. 69-61.

C. JULIUS CÆSAR--
100. His birth 214
His early history 214
Proscribed by Sulla 215
81. He serves in Asia 215
77. Accuses Dolabella 215
Taken by the Pirates 215
75. Studies in Rhodes 215
68. Quæstor 215
65. Curule Ædile 216
Restores the statues of Marius 216

M. TULLIUS CICERO--
106. His birth 216
80. Serves in the Social War 216
81. His speech for P. Quintius 216
80. His speech for Sex. Roscius of Ameria 216
79. He goes to Athens 216
78. He studies in Rome 216
77. He returns to Rome 216
76. Quæstor in Sicily 217
70. He accuses Verres 217
68. Ædile 217
66. Prætor 217
He speaks on behalf of the Manilian law 217

65. First conspiracy of Catiline 217

History of Catiline 218

63. Consulship of Cicero 219

Second conspiracy of Catiline 219

Catiline quits Rome 220

Cicero seizes the conspirators 220

They are put to death 221

62. Defeat and death of Catiline 221

Popularity of Cicero 221

Remarks upon the punishment of the conspirators 221