Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero/54 BC

54 BC

During this year politics were comparatively uneventful. Crassus was gone to Syria. Pompey should have gone to Spain, but at the request of the senate he stayed near Rome, and in the autumn his wife Iulia died, thus breaking one strong tie between him and Caesar. Quintus Cicero went as legatus to Caesar and accompanied him to Britain. Cicero himself kept up a correspondence with Caesar, and seems to nurse his friendship with him with an almost feverish eagerness, which, however, lacks spontaneity. He was engaged this year in composing his treatise on the Republic.

Letters

• CXXX: To M. Licinius Crassus on his way to Syria, from Rome, January
• CXXXI: To Quintus in the country, from Rome, February
• CXXXII: To Quintus in the country, from Rome, February
• CXXXIII: To Author:Julius Caesar in Gaul, from Rome, February
• CXXXIV: To Quintus in the country, from Rome, 15 February
• CXXXV: To C. Trebatius Testa in Gaul, from Cumae, April
• CXXXVI: To C. Trebatius Testa on his way to Gaul, from Cumae, April or May
• CXXXVII: To Atticus on a journey, from Cumae, May
• CXXXVIII: To Quintus in Gaul, from Cumae, May
• CXXXIX: To C. Trebatius Testa in Gaul, from Rome, June
• CXL: To Quintus in Gaul, from Rome, 3 June
• CXLI: To Quintus in Gaul, from Rome, 3 June
• CXLII: To Atticus in Epirus or Asia, from Rome, 24 June
• CXLIII: To Atticus in Epirus, from Rome, 27 July
• CXLIV: To C. Trebatius Testa in Gaul, from Rome, September
• CXLV: To C. Trebatius Testa in Gaul, from Rome, September
• CXLVI: To Quintus in Britain, from Rome, September
• CXLVII: To Quintus in Britain, from Arpinum and Rome, 28 September
• CXLVIII: To Atticus on his way to Rome, from Rome, 1 October
• CXLIX: To Quintus in Gaul, from Rome, October
• CL: To Quintus in Gaul, from Rome, October
• CLI: To Quintus in Gaul, from Rome, 24 October
• CLII: To P. Lentulus Spinther in Cilicia, from Rome, October
• CLIII: To Atticus in Asia, from Rome, October
• CLIV: To Quintus in Gaul, from Tusculum, November
• CLV: To Quintus in Gaul, from Tusculum, November
• CLVI: To C. Trebatius Testa in Gaul, from Rome, November
• CLVII: To Atticus on his way to Rome, from Rome, November
• CLVIII: To Quintus in Gaul, from Rome, November
• CLIX: To Quintus in Gaul, from Rome, November or December
• CLX: To C. Trebatius Testa in Gaul, from Rome, November
• CLXI: To L. Valerius in Cilicia, from Rome
• CLXII: To M. Curius, a proconsul, from Rome
• CLXIII: To C. Munatius in a province, from Rome
• CLXIV: To Q. Philippus, proconsul of Asia, from Rome

Appendix C

• I: To Tiro, from Cumae, 10 April^[1]
• II: To Tiro, from Cumae, 11 April
• III: To Tiro, from Cumae, 12 April
• IV: To Tiro, from Cumae, 19 May

Speeches

• For Gnaeus Plancius (Perseus)
• For Aemilius Scaurus (Perseus)
• For Gaius Rabirius Postumus (Perseus)

Philosophical works

• On the Republic (Google Books)

Footnotes

1. Shuckburgh gives several possible dates for the letters to Tiro. I have settled for 54 BC because other letters show Cicero was in Cumae in April and May.