The Late Republic, II: 82-63

I. Lingua Latina

• Salvete, Salve
• Quid agitis?, Quid agis? optime, bene, satis bene, male
• Romam a principio reges habuerunt (Tacitus)
• vae victis (Livy)
• Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque (Ennius)
• Carthago delenda est (Cato the Elder)
• prandi, potavi, scortum accubui (Plautus)
• Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto (Terence)
• Metus hostilis in bonis artibus civitatem retinebat (Sallust)
• O tempora, o mores! (Cicero)

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Remaining from Tuesday: Events, 111-82 BCE

II. People and Events, 82-62 BCE

(You are responsible for all dates marked in bold, as well as for relative chronology of all events)

82-81: Dictatorship of Sulla
His program:

• proscriptions
• increase senate to 600 members
• increase number of quaestors to 20
• enforce cursus honorum
  
• 10 years before reelection to magistracy
• tribunes may not hold further offices
• plebeian assembly can only vote on measures already approved by the senate
• only senators in juries of quaestiones de repetundis
• distribute Italians among all 35 tribes
• abolish grain distributions
• land for his veterans
• restrict powers of governors

80-73: Defeat of Sertorius in Spain

78: Consulship of M. Aemilius Lepidus
His proposals:

• repeal Sulla's acts
• return confiscated land
• renew grain distributions
• restore power to tribunes

74-67: Lucullus fights Mithridates

73-71: Revolt and defeat of Spartacus
Hollywood's Version: Spartacus (1960)

70: Consulship of Crassus and Pompey
Their program:

• restore power to tribunes
• juries of quaestiones de repetundis to be 1/3 senators, 2/3 equites

67: Pompey defeats the pirates

67-63: Pompey defeats Mithridates and marches through Near East

63: Consulship of M. Tullius Cicero

• Proposal for land commission by tribune Servilius Rullus defeated
• C. Julius Caesar elected pontifex maximus
• Conspiracy of Catiline

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