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is proclaimed, and finally Pompey is made sole consul, being allowed to retain the government of Spain, Milo is accused of vis and condemned. He goes into exile at Massilia.
51 B.C.
Consuls: Servius Sulpicius Rufus and M. Claudius Marcellus
Cicero goes to Cilicia as proconsul, succeeding Appius Claudius, who had succeeded Lentulus in 54, and M. Calpurnius Bibulus goes to Syria. Cicero is kept fully informed of what occurs in Rome by his friend M. Caelius Rufus (Bk. VIII of these Letters).
50 B.C.
Consuls: C. Claudius Marcellus, cousin of the consul for 51, and L. Aemilius Paullus
§ 1. Cicero, after a satisfactory tenure of office, quits his province, leaving C. Caelius Caldus, his quaestor, in charge, and reaches Rome in December. He is anxious about the honours due to his Cilician successes, having so far only had a supplicatio voted him, but no triumph; he is also embarrassed about the marriage of his daughter Tullia with P. Cornelius Dolabella, who was prosecuting for treason Appius Claudius Pulcher, with whom Cicero desired a reconciliation.
§ 2. A motion in the Senate, that Caesar's candidature for the consulship should be considered in his absence, having been rejected, the tribune Scribonius Curio demands the disbanding of Pompey's army, which the Senate would have passed but for