APPENDIX B
DATES IN THE LIFE OF CICERO
B.C. 106. Coss., C. M. Tullius Cicero b. January 3rd (A.D.
Acilius Serranus, III Non. Ian.) at Arpinum (ad Att. vii. 5;
Q. Servilius Cæpio xiii. 42: vol. ii., p. 224; vol. iii., p. 349;
de Leg. ii. § 3). His father M. Tullius
Cicero was of equestrian rank (de Pet.
§ 13; pro Planc. § 59), of a plebeian gens
of the tribe Cornelia (Brut. § 62). His
mother's name was Helvia (Plut. Cic. i.;
Letter DCCCXI).
Iugurthine war finished by C. Marius
as proconsul.
Cn. Pompeius Magnus b. September 30th.
B.C. 1O2. Coss., C. Æt.4. Birth of Quintus Tullius Cicero.
Marius IV., Q. Destruction of the Teutones and Ambrones
Lutatius Catulus. at Aquæ Sextiæ by C. Marius.
B.C. 101. Coss., C. Æt. 5. Defeat of the Cimbri near
Marius V., M'. Aquilius. Vercellæ by Marius and Catulus.
B.C. 100. Coss., C. Æt. 6. The sedition in which the
Marius VI., L. tribune L. Appuleius Saturninus was
Valerius Flaccus. killed (pro Rabirio, § 18, sqq.).
B.C. 91. Coss., L. Æt. 15. Cicero takes the toga virilis.
Marcius Philippus, He writes a poem on Marius (de Leg.
Sex. Iulius Cæsar. i. I; vol. iii., p. 256).
B.C. 90. Coss., L. Æt. 16. The Marsic or Social war
Iulius Cæsar, P. begins. Cicero begins a translation in
Rutilius Rufus. hexameters of the Phænomena of Aratus.
