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Cicero Sine Qua Non
Things to know about Cicero
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12th Grade
03/27/2008

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___ ___ ___ was born in ___ in ___ and died in ___ in ___.
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Marucs Tullius Cicero, Arprium, 106 BC, Formiae, 43 BC
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Cicero was a ___ ___ and was elected to each office ___ ___.
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Novus homo, suo anno
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Cicero's wife was ___, his son ___, his daughter ___, his brother ___, his bff ___ ___ ___ and his freedman secretary ___.
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Terentia, Marcus, Tullia, Quintus, Titus Pomponius Atticus, Tiro
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By successfully prosecuting ___ for extortion on ___, Cicero supplanted ___ as Rome's foremost lawyer.
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Verres, Sicily, Hortensius
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Cicero began the ___ ___ as ___ in Sicily.
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Cursus honorum, questor
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For crushing the ___ conspiracy in ___ Cicero recieved the title of ___ ___.
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Catilinarian, 63 BC, pater patriae
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___ ___ ___ was accused of profaning the ___ ___ rites in 62 BC.
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Publius Clodius Pulcher, Bona Dea
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___ effected Cicero's ___ from Rome from ___ to ___.
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Clodius, exile, 58 BC, 57 BC.
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Cicero served as ___ in Cilicia, earning a ___ and the title of ___.
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proconsul, supplicatio, imperator
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In the ___ ___ Cicero supported ___.
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Civil war, Pompey
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Cicero wrote 14 ___ against ___.
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Philippics, Antony
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Over ___ of Cicero's letters have been preserved.
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800
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Many of Cicero's letters are addressed to ___ ___ ___ who, along with ___, were the leading Caesarian conspirators.
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Marcus Junius Brutus, Cassius
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___ ___ ___ was murdered by ___ on the ___ ___ in 52 BC.
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Publius Clodius Pulcher, Milo, Appian Way
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___ ___ ___, a staunch anti-Caesarian, committed suicide at ___ in 46 BC by self evisceration.
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Marcus Parcius Cato, Utica
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Speeches ___ ___ ___ were delivered to the senators; those delivered ___ ___ were delivered to the people from the ___ in the ___.
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ad Patres Conscriptos, ad Quirites, Rostra, Forum
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The introductory remarks at a speech was called the ___;the conculsion was called the ___.
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exordium, peroratio
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An ordinary senate decree was called a ___ ___; the ___ ___ ___ gave the consuls dictatorial powers.
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senatus consultum, senatus consultum ultimum
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Five Catilianarian conspirators were strangled in the ___ in 62 BC.
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Tullianum
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Catiline's general, ___, held camp at ___.
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Manlius, Faesule
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Cicero's first criminal case was in defense of ___ who was accused of parricide.
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Roscius
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Cicero's coconsul, ___ ___ defeated ___ in ___ in 62 BC.
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Gaius Antonius, Catiline, Pistonia
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Catiline's full name was ___ ___ ___.
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Lucius Sergius Catilina
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___ ___ members were ___, ___, and ___. The ___ ___ members were ___, ___, and ___.
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First Triumvirate, Caesar, Pompey, Crassus, Second Triumvirate, Octavius, Antony, Lepidus
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Clodius vicious wife ___ later married ___ ___.
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Fulvia, Marcus Antony
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A personal enemy in Rome was called an ___, an enemy of the state was ___.
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inimicus, hostis
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The repetition of the same word at the beginning of successive phrases was called ___.
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anaphora
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The omission of conjunctions to create a "rapid fire" effect is called ___.
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asyndeton
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An ABBA or crisscross word order is call ___.
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Chiasmus
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The omission of words which must be understood from context is ___.
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ellipsis
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A gross exaggeration to make a point, but not to be taken literally, is ___.
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hyperbole
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Using two negatives to make a vague positive is ___.
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litotes
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An implied comparison without the use of "like" or "as" is ___.
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metaphor
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Naming one thing by something closely associated with it is ___.
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metonymy
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The use of two logically contradictory adjectives or terms to describe the same noun is ___.
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oxymoron
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Giving human characeristics to non-human beings or objects is ___.
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personification
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Claiming that a point will not be made but mentioning it anyway, is called ___.
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preterition
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A comparison using "like" or "as" is a ___.
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simile
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The dropping of an unaccented syllable in the middle of a word is ___.
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syncopation
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Naming something by a part instead of the whole is ___.
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synecdoche
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Three verbs that mean fear are ___, ___, and ___.
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timeo, vereor, metuo
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5 verbs that take the abl. are ___, ___, ___, ___, and ___.
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fruor, fungor, patior, vescor, utor
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Two verbs that take the genitive are ___ and ___.
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memini, obliviscor
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus (___) wrote an account of the Catilinarian conspiracy.
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Sallust
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De ___, De ___, and De ___ are among Cicero's treatises.
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Americitia, Senectute, Officiis
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___, ___, ___, ___ all mean ___.
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Caedo, neco, interficio, occido, kill
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___ means ___, ___ ___ means ___ ___ ___ ___ and ___ is used in English to mean ___, ___, ___.
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mos, custom, moss maiorum, customs of our ancestors, mores, ways, habits, customs
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___ means death, ___ means disease and ___ means delay.
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Mores, Morbus, mora
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___ is alternate for ___ and ___ is and alternate ending for ___.
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-re, -ris, -ere, -erunt
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The "violent" separation of an adjective from the noun it modifies for emphatic emphasis is called ___.
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hyperbaton
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