consulship—quod cives indemnatos necavisset
  (see vol. i., p. 22).

  Cicero declines a province.

  Birth of Octavius (afterwards Augustus),
  September 23rd.

B.C. 62. Coss., D. Æt. 44. Quintus Cicero prætor. C.
Iunius Silanus, L. Iulius Cæsar prætor.
Licinius Murena.
  Speeches pro Cornelio Sulla and pro
  Archia Poeta.

  Pompey reaches Italy on his return
  from the East at the end of the year.

  P. Clodius said to have penetrated
  Cæsar's house in female disguise when
  Cæsar's wife and other matrons were
  celebrating the mysteries of the Bona Dea.

  Letters XII-XV.

B.C. 61. Coss., M. Æt. 45. Trial and acquittal of P. Clodius.
Pupius Piso Calpurnius,
M. Valerius Messalla Quintus Cicero proprætor of Asia.
Niger.
  Pompey celebrates a triumph for the
  Mithradatic war (September 29th and
  30th).

  Cæsar proprætor in Spain.

  Letters XVI-XXII.

B.C. 60. Coss., L. Æt. 46. Cicero writes a history of his
Afranius, Q. Cæcilius consulship in Greek (vol. i., p. 57), and
Metellus. also a poem in three books.

  P. Clodius, after his quæstorship in
  Africa, seeks adoption into a plebeian
  gens in order to get the tribuneship.

  Cæsar, returning from Spain to stand
  for the consulship, is prevented from
  triumphing by opposition of the senate.
  Pompey is discontented with the senate
  for not confirming his acta. The two form
  with Crassus the informal agreement
  known as the first triumvirate.

  Letters XXIV-XXIX.

B.C. 59. Coss., C. Æt. 47. Pompey marries Iulia.
Iulius Cæsar, M.
Calpurnius Bibulus. Cicero opposed to Cæsar's agrarian law,
  refuses to be one of the vigintiviri for
  assigning lands, and declines a legatio
  offered by Cæsar.

  Cæsar's laws passed in spite of the
  opposition of his colleague Bibulus.