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| equestrian order | wealthy middle class of society, property valued at 400,000 sestertii |
| Arpinum | town 60 miles SE of Rome, birthplace of Cicero |
| Gaius Marius | populist leader also a native of Arpinum, novus homo |
| Quintus Mucius Scaevola | oversaw Cicero's legal apprenticeship in the forum |
| Pompey | father of Magnus, Cicero served under him in the Social War in 89BC |
| Pro Roscio | 80 BC, Cicero's first major oration as a lawyer. went against a friend of Sulla |
| Sulla | Roman general who fought against MArius in a civil war and took power killing his enemies |
| proscription | process in which Sulla made a list of personal enemies and published it. Enemies could be killed for reward |
| Terentia | first wife of Cicero, married in about 77BC |
| novus homo | person without a consul in his family who runs for higher office |
| quaestor | 76 BC at the age of 31, treasury official |
| Sicily | province in which Cicero served a proquaestorship in 75BC |
| Verres | governor of Sicily who was brought up on charges of corruption and prosecuted by Cicero |
| Hortensius | leading lawyer in Rome |
| aedile | 69 BC Cicero produced Greek plays and provided inexpensive food for the Roman people |
| praetor | 66 BC age 40 |
| contio | speech before general citizenry to explain senatorial legislation or rally support for cause |
| consul | 63 BC 43 year of age |
| Gaius Antonius Hybrida | uncle of Marcus Antonius, co consul with Cicero |
| suo anno | consulship attained at the minimum age of office, like Cicero as consul, age 43 |
| Catilina | from a noble family, tried for consulship 3 times, failed, started revolution |
| patrician | highest class in Roman society, senatorial class |
| Catiline's propraetorship | Africa, 67-66 BC |
| pontifex maximus | head of Roman religion, Caesar stood for this in 63BC |
| novae tabellae | cancellation of debts |
| Manlius | raised a legion in Etruria to go against the Roman state |
| Faesulae | town in NW Etruria, October 19 report reaches Rome of Manlius' army there |
| Arrius | reports plans for a revolution by Catilina |
| Senatus consultum ultimum | Final decree of the senate, October 21 passed |
| Attempted murder of Cicero | November 7 |
| Meeting of senate | November 8, Catilina present also |
| Temple of Jupiter Stator | place of senate meeting, chosen for easier defense |
| Curia | traditional meeting place of the senate |
| First Catilinarian Oration | delivered November 8, before the senate |
| Second Catilinarian Oration | delivered November 9, before the people |
| hostes | political enemies |
| Allobroges | Gallic tribe, allies of Rome, envoys approached by Catilina's conspirators |
| Q.F. Sanga | hereditary Roman patron of Allobroges |
| Mulvian Bridge | site of arrest of Allobroges and Titus Volturcius |
| Third Catilinarian Oration | Dec 3 or 4, detailed proceedings of the senate meeting after arrest of conspirators |
| Contra rem publicam | charge of treason |
| Fourth Catilinarian Oration | December 5, before Senate, redirect argument in support of death penalty |
| Cato | supporter of the death penalty for the five conspirators |
| Tullianum | place where executions occured in the prison |
| pater patriae | award earned by Cicero, father of his country |
| Q. Caecilius Metellus Nepos | tribune of plebs, took away Cicero's right to address the people because he executed Roman citizens without a trial |
| senate resolution of Jan 3, 62 | indemnity to all acting against the conspirators |
| Pistoria | site where Catilina's legion was defeated by Antonius, mid-January 62 BC |
| Clodius | attends all- women festival at home of Julius Caesar, found out, arrested |
| Bona Dea | festival in honor of "good goddess" |
| Cicero's exile | March 58, sent out of Rome for 18 months because of execution of Roman citizens without a trial |
| Caesar | spends 58-50 in Gaul |
| Crassus | killed at battle of Carrhae in Parthia |
| Civil War - Caesar/Pompey | 49 BC |
| Pharsalus | defeat of Pompey by Caesar, August 48 |
| Publilia | wealthy girl, Cicero's patron whom he marries after divorce from Terentia |
| Tullia | daughter of Cicero who dies in 45 BC |
| Philippics | 14 speeches written by Cicero against Marcus Antonius |
| Antony | after the murder of Caesar, this man was in charge of Rome |
| Fulvia | wife of Marcus Antonius |
| death of Cicero | December 7, 43 BC proscribed by Antonius, head and hands nailed to the rostra in Rome |
| cursus honorum | ladder of offices: quaestor, praetor and consul |
