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Chronological Summary

§ 3. He had already completed his Tusculan Disputations and De natura deorum, and during the remainder of the year composed his De amicitia, De senectute, De officiis, and several other works.


43 B.C.

Consuls: C. Vibius Pansa and A. Hirtius

After a series of events too complicated even to summarize here,[1] C. Octavius, by then called Octavianus, formed a triumvirate with Antony and Lepidus, who removed their chief opponents by proscriptio. Among the proscribed was Cicero, who was slain on December 7, when he was approaching the end of his sixty-fourth year.

  1. ↑ A full note on the Cisalpine Campaign will be found at the beginning of Book X.
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