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Title: Life of Cicero
Volume One

Author: Anthony Trollope

Release Date: September, 2005 [EBook #8945]
Posting Date: April 30, 2009

Language: English

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THE

LIFE OF CICERO

BY

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

_IN TWO VOLUMES_

VOL. I.

NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE
1881

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

CHAPTER I.
PAGE
INTRODUCTION. 7

CHAPTER II.

HIS EDUCATION. 40

CHAPTER III.

THE CONDITION OF ROME. 62

CHAPTER IV.

HIS EARLY PLEADINGS.--SEXTUS ROSCIUS
AMERINUS.--HIS INCOME. 80

CHAPTER V.

CICERO AS QUAESTOR. 107

CHAPTER VI.

VERRES. 124

CHAPTER VII.

CICERO AS AEDILE AND PRAETOR. 162

CHAPTER VIII.

CICERO AS CONSUL. 184

CHAPTER IX.

CATILINE. 206

CHAPTER X.

CICERO AFTER HIS CONSULSHIP. 240

CHAPTER XI.

THE TRIUMVIRATE. 264

CHAPTER XII.

HIS EXILE. 297

* * * * *

APPENDICES.

APPENDIX A. 335

APPENDIX B. 340

APPENDIX C. 242

APPENDIX D. 345

APPENDIX E. 347

THE LIFE OF CICERO.

CHAPTER I.

_INTRODUCTION._

I am conscious of a certain audacity in thus attempting to give a
further life of Cicero which I feel I may probably fail in justifying by
any new information; and on this account the enterprise, though it has
been long considered, has been postponed, so that it may be left for
those who come after me to burn or publish, as the