B.C. 106. Born at Arpinum. Birth of Pompeius. „ 102. Birth of Quintus Cicero, and of Caesar. „ 91. Assumes the _toga virilis_. Q. Mucius Scaevola the augur becomes his tutor in civil law. Writes an heroic poem in praise of Marius. „ 89. Serves his first and only campaign under Pompeius Strabo. „ 87. Studies Rhetoric at Rome under Apollonius Molo of Rhodes. „ 81. Delivers his first speech (_causa privata_) +Pro P. Quinctio+. „ 80. Delivers his first speech (_causa publica_) +Pro S. Roscio Amerino+. „ 79-7. Studies at Athens and Rhodes. Marries Terentia. „ 75-4. Quaestor at Lilybaeum in Sicily. „ 70. The six speeches +In C. Verrem+. „ 69. Curule Aedile. The +Pro Caecina+. „ 68. Date of the earliest extant letter. „ 67. Praetor. The Lex Gabinia. „ 66. The De Imperio Cn. Pompeii (+Pro Lege Manilia+). „ 64. Birth of his son Marcus. Marriage of Tullia to C. Piso Frugi. „ 63. Consul. The four speeches +In Catilinam+. The +Pro Murena+. „ 62. Cicero hailed ‘pater patriae.’ The +Pro Sulla+ and +Pro Archia+. „ 60. Poem ‘De consulatu meo.’ „ 59. The First Triumvirate (Caesar, Pompeius, and Crassus). The +Pro Valerio Flacco+. „ 58-7. Cicero in Exile. The four speeches +Post Reditum+. „ 56. The +Pro Sestio+ and +De Provinciis Consularibus+ (his recantation). „ 55. The +De Oratore+ and +De temporibus meis+. „ 52. The +Pro Milone+. The +De Legibus+: the +De Republica+. „ 51-50. Proconsul of Cilicia. Is granted a _supplicatio_. „ 49. Joins Pompeius at Dyrrachium. „ 47. Becomes reconciled to Caesar. „ 46. The +Brutus+ and +Orator+. „ 45. Death of Tullia. The +De Finibus+ and +Academics+. „ 44. The +Tusculanae Disputationes+: the +De Natura Deorum+: +De Divinatione+: +De Amicitia+: +De Senectute+: +De Officiis+. +Philippics i-iv.+ „ 43. +Philippics v-xiv.+ The Second Triumvirate (Antonius, Octavianus, and Lepidus). Murder of Cicero. 2. Works. (1) +Speeches.+--We possess 57 speeches, and fragments of about 20 more, and we know of 33 others delivered by Cicero. ‘As a speaker and orator Cicero succeeded in gaining a place beside Demosthenes. His strongest point is his style; there he is clear, concise and apt, perspicuous, elegant and brilliant. He commands all moods, from playful jest to tragic pathos, but is most successful in the imitation of conviction and feeling, to which he gave increased impression by his fiery delivery.’ --Teuffel. Quintilian says of him that his eloquence combined the power of Demosthenes, the copiousness of Plato, and the sweetness of Isocrates.