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  Arpinum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Arpinum was an ancient Roman town in southern Latium, now Arpino.
It holds the dual honor of being the birth place of both Marius (157 BC) and Cicero (106 BC).
Cicero of Arpinum;: A political and literary biography being a contribution to the history of ancient civilization and a...
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 DropTeam Star System and Planetary Overviews
Arpinum served as the departure point for The Exodus, marking the beginning of mankind's colonization of the stars and the end of his first historical Epoch in the Sol system.
Arpinum was home to millions of refugees from Earth during the violent days of The Exodus, and nearly one thousand years later was home to the first Rim settlers returning from the heart of the Mu Arae Entente into the unknown wilderness, back in the direction of their species' original birthplace.
Now Arpinum is a gutted hulk, having been thoroughly used and pillaged by generations of colonists, traders, pirates, and fleets.
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 XIV. To His Brother Quintus (In Britain). Arpinum and Rome, 28 September. Cicero. 1909-14. Letters. The Harvard ...
For I received three from you in one day, and, indeed, as it seemed, despatched by you at the same time—one of considerable length, in which your first point was that my letter to you was dated earlier than that to Cæsar.
Publius Servilius the elder, from a letter which he said he had received from Cæsar, declares himself highly obliged to you for having spoken with the greatest kindness and earnestness of his devotion to Cæsar.
After my return to Rome from Arpinum I was told that Hippodamus had started to join you.
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 Station Information - Marius
In the long run this reform was to change entirely the relationship of the troops to the state.
157 BC in the town of Arpinum in southern Latium.
The facts that Marius had connections with the nobility in Rome, that he ran for local office in Arpinum and that he had marriage relations with the local nobility in Arpinum all combine to indicate that he was born into a locally important family of equestrian status.
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 The Women Who Influenced The Lives of Cicero, Caesar, and Vergil
Cicero of Arpinum he has been called because throughout his life he remained more the Arpinate and a "peregrinus" rather than one in sympathy with the lives and tastes of those of equal standing in the corrupt society of the Rome of his day.
Plutarch relates as a story commonly told that a vision appeared to his nurse and foretold that she was nurturing a great blessing to all Romans.
Arpinum was too far away for the changes in Roman political life to be appreciated.
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 CICERO - LoveToKnow Article on CICERO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The other family was a branch of the Tullii, settled from an ancient period at Arpinum.
MARCUS T1~LLIUs CICERO (10643 B.C.), Roman orator and politician, was born at Arpinum on the 3rd of January 106 B.C. His mother, Helvia, is said to have been of good family.
His health was weak, and he generally lived at Arpinum, where he devoted himself to literary pursuits.
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 Gaius Marius
Marius was a strong person and devoted to war as his earlier training had been in the army.
He was born in 157 BC at Arpinum (now Arpino) in Italy to parents who were poor and lived by the labor of their hands.
Marius was born to Marius and Fulcinia and had a rough and unrefined upbringing.
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 ARPINO (anc. Arpinum) - Online Information article about ARPINO (anc. Arpinum)
Arpinum) - Online Information article about ARPINO (anc.
ancient Volscian town of Arpinum, which was finally taken from the See also:
Romans in 305 B.C. It became a civitas sine suffragio, but received full privileges (civitas cum suffragio) in 188 B.C. with Formiae and Fundi; it was governed as a praefectura until the Social See also:
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157 in the town of Arpinum in southern Latium.
These all aid to indicate that his family was in fact locally important and maintained a fairly good status.
Sallust writes that Marius was not even seen or considered by the electors but was elected by all of the tribes because of his small but numerous accomplishments.
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 Cicero - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Cicero was born in Arpinum and caught and killed outside of Rome, fleeing from political enemies.
His family, the Tullii Cicerones, was one of the landed gentry in Arpinum and resented the fame and fortunes of the other great Arpinate families, the Marii.
Throughout his life, the conservative Cicero loathed being compared to the then more famous Marius.
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 CIRCEIUS MONS - LoveToKnow Article on CIRCEIUS MONS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The wall stands almost entirely free, as at Arpinum polygonal walls in Italy are as a rule embanking wallsand increases considerably in thickness as it descends.
The blocks of the inner face are much less carefully worked both here and at Arpinum.
It seems to have been an acropolis, and contains no traces of buildings, except for a subterranean cistern, circular, with a beehive roof of converging blocks.
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 XVII. To Atticus (At Rome). Minturnæ, May. Cicero. 1909-14. Letters. The Harvard Classics.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
I now come to that last line of your letter written crossways, in which you give me a word of caution about your sister.
The facts of the matter are these: On arriving at my place at Arpinum, my brother came to see me, and our first subject of conversation was yourself, and we discussed it at great length.
After this I brought the conversation round to what you and I had discussed at Tusculum, on the subject of your sister.
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 Accents and Dialects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
I think in the US today if someone was being criticized/mocked for being a country boy, most people from the big cities would have an image that includes certain speech patterns and accents without there being any specific mention of such.
Arpinum was definitely far enough away from Rome for it to have a distinct dialect.
Also the fact that Arpinum was in Volscian territory is significant.
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 Quintus Tullius Cicero   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
He was born in 102 BC in Arpinum, a town near Rome.
Then, he was declared to be an enemy of Mark Antony and fled from Tuscullum to escape Antony's revenge.
He went back home to Arpinum; a peasant denounced him and he gave himself up, to save his son who was being tortured.
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 Marcus Tullius Cicero II Gens Tullia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
3 January 106: Marcus Tullius Cicero is born in the town of Arpinum, 70 miles southeast of Rome, to a wealthy equestrian family.
Although distantly related to the great general Marius (who also hailed from Arpinum), he has no other famous relatives.
Plutarch relates, "he looked steadfastly upon his murderers, his person covered with dust, his beard and hair untrimmed, and his face worn with his troubles....stretching forth his neck out of the litter." In the same year, Quintus and his son also fall victim to the proscriptions of the Second Triumvirate.
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 Cicero's alliances   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Cicero, we should remember, came from Arpinum, a country town 70 miles from Rome.
Although the Tulli were among the leading families of Arpinum, Cicero had none of the ancestry that was so important to laucnhing a political career in Rome.
Cicero's father, for example, opposed the use of the secret ballot in Arpinum.
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 Find in a Library: Cicero of Arpinum; a political and literary biography being a contribution to the history of ancient ...
Find in a Library: Cicero of Arpinum; a political and literary biography being a contribution to the history of ancient civilization and a guide to the study of Cicero's writings.
Cicero of Arpinum; a political and literary biography being a contribution to the history of ancient civilization and a guide to the study of Cicero's writings.
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 CICERO - Online Information article about CICERO
born at Arpinum on the 3rd of See also:
Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
health was weak, and he generally lived at Arpinum, where he devoted himself to See also:
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Marius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The importance of Marius' reforms is summed up by Professor Hugh Last: "[Gaius Marius] did more than any other single factor to make possible that series of civil wars which only ended in the establishment of the Principate." (The Cambridge Ancient History, vol IX, p.133.)
The town had been conquered by the Romans in the late fourth century BC and was given Roman citizenship without voting rights.
We next learn that he ran for the Quaestorship after losing an election for local office in Arpinum.
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Cicero was born in Arpinum Arpinum and died in Rome Rome.
His family, the Tullii Cicerones, was one of the landed gentry in Arpinum and resented the fame and fortunes of the other great Arpinate families, the Marii Marii.
Throughout his life, the conservative Cicero loathed being compared to the then more famous Marius Marius.
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 Cicero of Arpinum: A Political and Literary Biography Being a Contribution to the History of Ancient Civilization and a ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Cicero of Arpinum: A Political and Literary Biography Being a Contribution to the History of Ancient Civilization and a Guide to the Study of Cicero's Writings - Questia Online Library
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 CICERO - Encyclopedia Britannica - CICERO - JCSM's Study Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Of one family, of the plebeian Claudian Bens, only a single member, Gaius Claudius Cicero, tribune in 454 B.C., is known.
This family, four of whose members are noticed
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO (106-43 B.C.), Roman orator and politician, was born at Arpinum on the 3rd of January 1o6 B.C. His mother, Helvia, is said to have been of good family.
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Marius came from what hill-town in the Volscian countryside?
In what year did the citizens of Arpinum receive full citizenship?
What offices did Marius hold in 119 and 125 BC?
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