CLA231H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Polymath, Latin, Praetor
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Increased the senate and the number of elected offices *praetor, quaestor for enlarged empire. Check against this aristocratic privilege and abuse of power. Apparently roman calendar had become out of whack with the actual seasons. Tried to get rid of a lot of strange rules - codify it a little bit. Lot of interesting digressions on gallic and german culture. Marcius junius brutus and gaius cassius longinus - liberators . The two involved in the conspiracy to murder caesar. Insights to republican life (did his dissertation on it) Orator, lawyer, statesman, consul (63 bc), philosopher, poet, historian, translator, teacher of rhetoric. Authority on matters of style in public oratory - fallen out of fashion rather dramatically in the past 150 years. As a desperate measure - authorizes cicero to use whatever means necessary to ensure the stability of the republic. Exiled 58 bc for his role in executing members of a conspiracy against.
