Cicero

I. Lingua Latina

• veni, vidi, vici (Caesar)
• alea iacta est (Caesar)
• Catullus, Poem 85
  odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris
  nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
• Lucretius, De rerum natura 3.830
  nihil igitur mors est
• Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? (Cicero)

Remaining from last week: Lucretius on Death

II. Cicero: his life, works and legacy

III. The Catilinarian Conspiracy

IV. Cicero's Speech Against Catiline

The speech read in Latin by Gareth Morgan, former UT Professor

V. Rhetoric at Rome

VI. Some tips for improving your grades on future exams

1. Come to class each day, and take good notes.
2. Read all assigned readings before class, and reread them after class.
3. Pay attention to the web site. Make sure you know well all the material outlined there.
4. Don't rely on the web outlines alone: be ready to fill in the details of the events and literary works outlined there.
5. Be sure to distinguish between names and words that start with the same letter.