B.C. 48. Coss., C. Æt. 58. Cicero remains at Pompey's
Iulius Cæsar II., headquarters in Epirus for the first part
P. Servilius Vatia of the year, but was also invalided and
Isauricus. retired to Dyrrachium for some time.
  After the battle of Pharsalia (August 9th),
  at which he was not present, he went on
  board the fleet at Corcyra. But refusing
  to continue the war, he retired to Patræ;
  thence by special permission of Cæsar he
  returned to Brundisium about the end of
  October, where he remained till the following
  September.

  Pompey murdered in Egypt (October).

  Cæsar engaged in the Alexandrine war.

  Cælius attempts a revolution and is
  killed.

  Antony after Pharsalia still in charge of
  Italy as proprætor.

  Letters CCCCIV-CCCCXX.

B.C. 47. Dict. r.p.c., Æt. 59. Cicero remains at Brundisium
C. Iulius Cæsar II. till Cæsar returns from Alexandria and
Mag. Eq., M. Antonius. Asia (after battle of Zela).
Coss., Q.
Fufius Calenus, P. Dolabella as tribune proposes revolutionary
Vatinius. laws. Great riots at Rome.

  Cicero returns to Tusculum, October
  7th.

  Letters CCCCXXI-CCCCXLVIII.

B.C. 46. Coss., C. Æt. 60. Cæsar attacks Cato and the
Iulius Cæsar III., Pompeians in Africa. News of the battle
M. Æmilius Lepidus. of Thapsus reaches Rome, April 20th.
  Cato kills himself at Utica.

  Cæsar returns to Rome at the beginning
  of September. His four triumphs.

  Cicero lives at Rome and his country
  villas.

  Composes Paradoxa, Partitiones Oratoriæ,
  Orator, Brutus de Claris Oratoribus,
  Paradoxa. He also writes a panegyric
  on Cato, which is not extant.

  He divorces Terentia at the end of the year.

  Cæsar's reformation of the Calendar.
  Ninety extra days in this year.

  Speeches: pro Marcello (in the senate),
  pro Ligario (before Cæsar).