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The letters of Cicero, emailed to you on the day each letter was written. Now posting letters from Cicero's exile in 57 BCE!
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29 September 57 BCE: De domo sua (opens the original)
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Salvete, patres subscripti.Here is the third of Cicero’s post-exile speeches, and the last of the ones that will be included in e-pistulae.The speech is called De Domo Sua or ‘about his house’ because it was… about Cicero’s house, or, the absence of Cicero’s house after Clodius burned it down and dedicated a shrine to Liberty on the site. As discussed in Cicero’s most recent letter, whether or not the consecration was legal would determine whether Cicero could rebuild the h
Around 10 September 57 BCE: From Cicero (in Rome) to Atticus (in Epirus) (opens the original)
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Cicero greets Atticus.As soon as I reached Rome and someone I could rely on to deliver a letter to you, I thought nothing should take priority over congratulating you (in your absence) on my return. To tell the truth, I had found that in the advice you gave me you were neither braver nor more sensible than I was mysel
Early September 57 BCE: post reditum ad Populum (opens the original)
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Salvete, patres subscripti.The second of Cicero’s post-exile speeches was delivered to an assembly of the People not long after his first speech to the Senate. The exact date of the speech is uncertain, and the text of the speech itself is unhelpfully non-specific, probably because, like the first speech, it was written before Cicero actually got back to Rome.Being the person he is, Cicero opens the speech with a single sentence that in Latin is 127 words long.<p
5 September 57 BCE: post reditum in Senatu (opens the original)
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Salvete, patres subscripti.Cicero is BACK.Cicero’s allies had been trying to have him recalled essentially the entire time he was in exile, but every time they got close to passing a law to allow him to return, it would be vetoed by Clodius or a tribune allied with him, or the process would be disrupted by violence. But in the early summer of 57 BCE the Senate passed a decree (that Clodius opposed. Of course.) that… made it legal to pass a separate law to recall Cicero to Rome. Which they the
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