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In 60 the Democratic Party found leaders in Caesar, Pompeius (recently returned triumphant from the war in Asia), and Crassus these formed the coalition known as the First Triumvirate. They determined to get rid of Cicero, who was too good an Optimate to please them; and they employed for the purpose P. Clodius, an unprincipled Demo orat, and a Tribune of the year 58 Clodius drew attention to the illegality of the execution of the Catilina rians, overawed both Senate and Consuls by the violence Of his attitude and the presence of his armed partisans, and ultimately compelled Cicero to go into banishment. In the next year Pompeius quarrelled with Clodius, and to spite him procured the recall of Cicero (57 who, his political activity being crippled by the Triumvirate, devoted his elo quence to the defence of his friends. In 56 he delivered his speech Pro Sestio, in 54: the Pro Plcmcio, and in 52 the Pro Milone. In 55 he was admitted to the College of Augurs; and in 51 he acted as Governor of the province of Cilicia, where he conducted with success some small military Operations.
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In 60 the Democratic Party found leaders in Caesar, Pompeius (recently returned triumphant from the war in Asia), and Crassus these formed the coalition known as the First Triumvirate. They determined to get rid of Cicero, who was too good an Optimate to please them; and they employed for the purpose P. Clodius, an unprincipled Demo orat, and a Tribune of the year 58 Clodius drew attention to the illegality of the execution of the Catilina rians, overawed both Senate and Consuls by the violence Of his attitude and the presence of his armed partisans, and ultimately compelled Cicero to go into banishment. In the next year Pompeius quarrelled with Clodius, and to spite him procured the recall of Cicero (57 who, his political activity being crippled by the Triumvirate, devoted his elo quence to the defence of his friends. In 56 he delivered his speech Pro Sestio, in 54: the Pro Plcmcio, and in 52 the Pro Milone. In 55 he was admitted to the College of Augurs; and in 51 he acted as Governor of the province of Cilicia, where he conducted with success some small military Operations.
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1. Marcus Tullius Cicero, the greatest of Roman orators, was born near Arpinum in 106 B.C. His family was of equestrian rank, but had never held any office in Rome. Cicero was accordingly a novus homo, and his struggle to obtain the praetorship and consulship was on that account made harder. He was sent while still a young lad to Rome, and there studied under the best masters, such as Archias. In B.C. 91 he assumed the toga virilis, and then attended the lectures of orators and lawyers. He was entrusted by his father to the special care of Mucius Scaevola, the Augur, from whose side he hardly ever departed. At that time one of the easiest methods of obtaining fame and success was by means of oratory, and as Cicero had a natural talent for this art, he cultivated it in preference to devoting himself to a military life. However, he served, as was usual with young Romans who aspired to public office, one campaign, and this happened to be in the Social War (89 B.C.) under Cn. Pompeius Strabo (the father of Pompeius the Great). For the next six years he took no part in public affairs, but devoted his time to the study of rhetoric and the various schools of philosophy; from Phaedrus he learned the Epicurean system, from Philo that of the New Academy, and from Diodõtus that of the Stoics.
The first of his extant speeches is that Pro P. Quinctio, which was delivered in 81 B.C. Next year, in a criminal trial, he defended Sextus Roscius Amerinus, whose accuser was Chrysogonus, the powerful freedman of Sulla.
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