tember 1st, Q. Speech pro Milone.
Cæcilius Metellus
Pius Scipio. Cicero writes de optima genere Oratorum
  and begins the de Legibus.

  Quintus comes home from Gaul.

  Letters CLXXVIII-CLXXXI.

B.C. 51. Coss., Servius Æt. 55. Cicero proconsul in Cilicia,
Sulpicius Rufus, accompanied by his brother Quintus, his
M. Claudius nephew Quintus, and his son Marcus.
Marcellus.
  Tullia married to Dolabella.

  Discussions at Rome as to whether
  Cæsar shall stand for the consulship without
  giving up his province and army.

  Alarm of an invasion of Syria by the
  Parthians. Two legions withdrawn from
  Cæsar for Syria, but not sent.

  Growing distrust between Pompey and
  Cæsar.

  Letters CLXXXII-CCXXXVI.

B.C. 50. Coss., L. Æt. 56. Cicero quits his province on
Æmilius Paullus, July 31st, lands at Brundisium, November
C. Claudius 25th, and arrives at Rome, January 4th
Marcellus (C.f.). of the next year.

  Gaius Curio, tribune from December
  10th, B.C. 51, accepts a large bribe from
  Cæsar and maintains his cause in the
  senate, preventing an appointment of a
  successor to him in Gaul. On laying
  down his tribuneship, December 9th, B.C.
  50, he goes at once to Cæsar at Ravenna
  and urges him to enter Italy in arms.

  Letters CCXXVII-CCXCIX.

B.C. 49. Coss., C. Æt. 57. Cæsar crosses the Rubicon
Claudius Marcellus after the senate had rejected his proposal,
(M.f.), L. conveyed by Curio on January 1st, and expelled
Cornelius Lentulus the tribunes Antonius and Cassius,
Crus. who vetoed the decree ordering Cæsar
  to surrender his province. Cæsar in Spain
Dictator sine Magistro after March: Antony in charge of Italy.
Equitum com. Cicero at first accepts the command of the
hab. et fer. Lat., C. Campanian shore, but on Pompey and the
Iulius Cæsar. consuls abandoning Rome, he stayed at
  Formiæ, hesitating whether to join Pompey,
  who left Italy on March 17th. He finally
  did so in June and was at Pompey's headquarters
  in Epirus for the rest of the year.

  Letters CCC-CCCCIII.