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CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
THE WAR BETWEEN CÆSAR AND POMPEY 110
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
MARCELLUS, LIGARIUS, AND DEIOTARUS 147
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CICERO'S RELIGION 321
APPENDIX 333
INDEX 337
THE
CHAPTER I.
HIS RETURN FROM EXILE.
Cicero's life for the next two years was made conspicuous by a series of speeches which were produced by his exile and his return. These are remarkable for the praise lavished on himself, and by the violence with which he attacked his enemies. It must be owned that never was abuse more abusive, or self-praise uttered in language more laudatory.[1] Cicero had now done all that was useful in his public life. The great monuments of his literature are to come. None of these had as yet been written except a small portion of his letters--about a tenth--and of these he thought no more in regar