Synopsis
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1818. Excerpt: ... Y. R. 690. served twenty thousand talents to be carried 62. into the public treasury at Rome, on the day ,^LS^ of his triumph; to make which as glorious as 3,s75,ooo/. possibly he could, was now his principal object. CHAP. IX. Extraordinary honours are decreed to Pompey by the senate, at the motion of Marcus Tullius Cicero, then consul; and by the people, at the motion of two of their tribunes. An account of the birth, education, and travels of Cicero ; his progress through the qucestorship, cedileship, and prtetorship, to the consular dignity : his acts and proceedings (in his consulship) prior to his discovery of Catiline's conspiracy. Brief histories of C. Julius Ccesar, M. Portius Cato, and L. Sergius Catilina, to that time. The conspiracy is quashed. Honours done to Cicero by the senate. He is affronted by one of the tribunes ; but contrives to make the affront turn to his glory. The joy at Rome on the news of the death of Mithridates may be said to have been intemperate. Cicero, who in a speech (the first he ever made from the rostra) had employed his eloquence with the people to procure for Pompey that unprecedented commission, which was given him by the Manilian law, employed now his consular and personal influence with the senate to obtain for him unprecedented honours. At the motion of Cicero, the fathers decreed a public thanksgiving, in Pompey's name, of ten days, which was twice as long as had ever been decreed before to any general, even to Marius himself, for his victory over the Cimbri2. And upon the receipt of the public letters, which brought an account of Pompey's success in Judaea (which put an end to the wars in the East), two tribunes of the people, T. Labienus and T. Ampius, passed a law, that this singular favourite should, on all festival days, have the priv...
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