13-14. In B.C. 62 Cicero defended P. Sulla, who was accused of complicity with Catiline (_Pro Sulla_), and delivered the speech _Pro Archia_ in support of his friend's title to the Roman citizenship. 15. In B.C. 59 L. Flaccus was accused of _repetundae_ as propraetor of Asia 62-60, and defended by Cicero in the speech _Pro Flacco_. 16-19. After Cicero's return from exile he returned thanks to the Senate in the speech _Cum Senatui gratias egit_, 5th September B.C. 57 (_ad Att._ iv. 1, 5), delivered from manuscript ('propter rei magnitudinem dicta de scripto,' _Pro Planc._ 74). The genuineness of the corresponding speech to the people, _Cum populo gratias egit_, is suspected; it is mentioned by Dio. xxxix. 9, 1, but not by Cicero himself. On 30th September (_ad Att._ iv. 2, 2) the speech _De Domo Sua_ was delivered before the _pontifices_, who decided that the site of Cicero's house, which Clodius had consecrated, should be restored to its owner. Connected with this is the speech _De Haruspicum Responsis_, of the year 56, rebutting the argument of Clodius that the declaration of the _haruspices_, 'loca sacra et religiosa profana haberi' (§ 9) referred to the restitution of Cicero's house. 20. The speech _Pro Sestio_ is in defence of one of Cicero's friends who, as tribune, had worked energetically for his recall from exile, and was now accused _de vi_ at the instigation of Clodius. Sestius was acquitted in March, B.C. 56 (_ad Q.F._ ii. 4, 1). 21. The _Interrogatio in P. Vatinium testem_ was a successful attack on the credibility of Vatinius, who had been one of the chief witnesses against Sestius. 22. _Pro M. Caelio_.--The prosecution of Caelius on a charge of poisoning was instigated by his former mistress, Clodia; it took place in B.C. 56, for Cn. Domitius, who tried the case (§ 32), was praetor in that year (_ad Q.F._ ii. 3, 6). 23. The speech _De Provinciis Consularibus_, B.C. 56, argues that Caesar should be allowed to continue as proconsul of Gaul, and that Syria and Macedonia should be taken away from Gabinius and Piso. Mommsen[27] regards it as the παλινῳδία of _ad Att._ iv. 5, 1, and contrasts Cicero's tone to Caesar in this speech with his attitude in the _Pro Sestio_, _In Vatinium_, and _De Haruspicum Responsis_. 24. The speech _Pro Balbo_ deals with a case similar to that of Archias. L. Cornelius Balbus, a native of Gades, and the trusted friend of Caesar, had received the _civitas_ from Pompey, and this speech is in defence of his right thereto (B.C. 56). 25. _In Pisonem_, an attack on Cicero's enemy (consul B.C. 58), delivered in the Senate B.C. 55. 26. _Pro Plancio_, B.C. 54, on behalf of Cn. Plancius, accused of organizing clubs to secure by bribery his election to the aedileship. 27. _Pro Rabirio Postumo_, B.C. 54. Rabirius was charged with extortion in Egypt.