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Sylla.--Capture and Death of Jugurtha

CHAPTER V.
Birth of Cicero.--The Cimbri and Teutons.--German Immigration into
Gaul.-- Great Defeat of the Romans on the Rhone.--Wanderings of the
Cimbri.-- Attempted Invasion of Italy.--Battle of Aix.--Destruction of
the Teutons.--Defeat of the Cimbri on the Po.--Reform in the Roman
Army.-- Popular Disturbances in Rome.--Murder of
Memmius.--Murder of Saturninus and Glaucia

CHAPTER VI.
Birth and Childhood of Julius Caesar.--Italian Franchise.--Discontent
of the Italians.--Action of the Land Laws.--The Social War.--Partial
Concessions.--Sylla and Marius.--Mithridates of Pontus.--First Mission
of Sylla into Asia.

CHAPTER VII.
War with Mithridates.--Massacre of Italians in Asia.--Invasion of
Greece.--Impotence and Corruption of the Senate.--End of the Social
War.-- Sylla appointed to the Asiatic Command.--The Assembly
transfer the Command to Marius.--Sylla marches on Rome.--Flight of
Marius.--Change of the Constitution.--Sylla sails for the East.--Four
Years' Absence.--Defeat of Mithridates.--Contemporary Incidents at
Rome.--Counter Revolution.-- Consulship of Cinna.--Return of
Marius.--Capitulation of Rome.--Massacre of Patricians and
Equites.--Triumph of Democracy.

CHAPTER VIII.
The Young Caesar.--Connection with Marius.--Intimacy with the
Ciceros.-- Marriage of Caesar with the Daughter of
Cinna.--Sertorius.--Death of Cinna.--Consulships of Norbanus and
Scipio.--Sylla's Return.--First Appearance of Pompey.--Civil
War.--Victory of Sylla.--The Dictatorship and the
Proscription.--Destruction of the Popular Party and Murder of the
Popular Leaders.--General Character of Aristocratic Revolutions.--The
Constitution remodelled.--Concentration of Power in the
Senate.--Sylla's General Policy.--The Army.--Flight of Sertorius to
Spain.--Pompey and Sylla.--Caesar refuses to divorce his Wife at

Sylla's Order.--Danger of Caesar.--His Pardon.--Growing Consequence
of Cicero.--Defence of Roscius.--Sylla's Abdication and Death

CHAPTER IX.
Sertorius in Spain.--Warning of Cicero to the Patricians.--Leading
Aristocrats.--Caesar with the Army in the East.--Nicomedes of
Bithynia.-- The Bithynian Scandal.--Conspiracy of Lepidus.--Caesar
returns to Rome.-- Defeat of Lepidus.--Prosecution of
Dolabella.--Caesar taken by Pirates.-- Senatorial
Corruption.--Universal Disorder.--Civil War in Spain.--Growth of
Mediterranean Piracy.--Connivance of the Senate.--Provincial
Administration.--Verres in Sicily.--Prosecuted by Cicero.--Second War
with Mithridates.--First Success of Lucullus.--Failure of Lucullus, and
the Cause of it.--Avarice of Roman Commanders.--The
Gladiators.--The Servile War.--Results of the Change in the
Constitution introduced by Sylla

CHAPTER X.
Caesar Military Tribune.--Becomes known as a Speaker.--Is made
Quaestor.-- Speech at his Aunt's Funeral.--Consulship of Pompey and
Crassus.--Caesar marries Pompey's Cousin.--Mission to
Spain.--Restoration of the Powers of the Tribunes.--The Equites and
the Senate.--The Pirates.--Food Supplies cut off from Rome.--The
Gabinian Law.--Resistance of the Patricians.-- Suppression of the
Pirates by Pompey.--The Manilian Law.--Speech of Cicero.--Recall of
Lucullus.--Pompey sent to command in Asia.--Defeat and Death of
Mithridates.--Conquest of Asia by Pompey

CHAPTER XI.

History of Catiline.--A Candidate for the Consulship.--Catiline and
Cicero.--Cicero chosen Consul.--Attaches Himself to the Senatorial
Party.--Caesar elected Aedile.--Conducts an Inquiry into the Syllan
Proscriptions.--Prosecution of Rabirius.--Caesar becomes Pontifex
Maximus--and Praetor.--Cicero's Conduct as Consul.--Proposed
Agrarian Law.--Resisted by Cicero.--Catiline again stands for the
Consulship.-- Violent Language in the Senate.--Threatened
Revolution.--Catiline again defeated.--The Conspiracy.--Warnings sent
to Cicero.--Meeting at Catiline's House.--Speech of Cicero in the
Senate.--Cataline joins an Army of Insurrection in Etruria.--His
Fellow-conspirators.--Correspondence with the Allobroges.--Letters
read in the Senate.--The Conspirators seized.-- Debate upon their
Fate.--Speech of Caesar.--Caesar on a Future State.-- Speech of
Cato--and of Cicero.--The Conspirators executed untried.--Death of
Catiline.

CHAPTER XII.
Preparations for the Return of Pompey.--Scene in the Forum.--Cato and
Metellus.--Caesar suspended from the Praetorship.--Caesar supports
Pompey.--Scandals against Caesar's Private Life.--General Character of
them.--Festival of the Bona Dea.--Publius Clodius enters Caesar's
House dressed as a Woman.--Prosecution and Trial of Clodius.--His
Acquittal, and the Reason of it.--Successes of Caesar as Propraetor in
Spain.--Conquest of Lusitania.--Return of Pompey to Italy.--First
Speech in the Senate.-- Precarious Position of Cicero.--Cato and the
Equites.--Caesar elected Consul.--Revival of the Democratic
Party.--Anticipated Agrarian Law.-- Uneasiness of Cicero.

CHAPTER XIII.
The Consulship of Caesar.--Character of his Intended Legislation.--The
Land Act first proposed in the Senate.--Violent Opposition.--Caesar

appeals to the Assembly.--Interference of the Second Consul
Bibulus.--The Land Act submitted to the People.--Pompey and Crassus
support it.--Bibulus interposes, but without Success.--The Act
carried--and other Laws.--The Senate no longer being
Consulted.--General Purpose of the Leges Juliae.-- Caesar appointed to
Command in Gaul for Five Years.--His Object in accepting that
Province.--Condition of Gaul, and the Dangers to be apprehended from
it.--Alliance of Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus.--The
Dynasts.--Indignation of the Aristocracy.--Threats to repeal Caesar's
Laws.--Necessity of Controlling Cicero and Cato.--Clodius is made
Tribune.--Prosecution of Cicero for Illegal Acts when Consul.--Cicero's
Friends forsake him.--He flies, and is banished.

CHAPTER XIV.
Caesar's Military Narrative.--Divisions of Gaul.--Distribution of
Population.--The Celts.--Degree of Civilization.--Tribal System.--The
Druids.--The AEdui and the Sequani.--Roman and German
Parties.--Intended Migration of the Helvetii.--Composition of Caesar's
Army.--He goes to Gaul.--Checks the Helvetii.--Returns to Italy for
Larger Forces.--The Helvetii on the Saône.--Defeated, and sent back to
Switzerland.--Invasion of Gaul by Ariovistus.--Caesar invites him to a
Conference.--He refuses.-- Alarm in the Roman Army.--Caesar
marches against Ariovistus.--Interview between them.--Treachery of
the Roman Senate.--Great Battle at Colmar.-- Defeat and Annihilation
of the Germans.--End of the First Campaign.-- Confederacy among the
Belgae.--Battle on the Aisne.--War with the Nervii.--Battle of
Maubeuge.--Capture of Namur.--The Belgae conquered.-- Submission
of Brittany.--End of the Second Campaign.

CHAPTER XV.
Cicero and Clodius.--Position and