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Excerpt from Cicero: Pro Archia In 60 the Democratic Party found leaders in Caesar, Pompeius (recently returned triumphant from the war in Asia), and Crassus these formed the coalition known as the First Triumvirate. They determined to get rid of Cicero, who was too good an Optimate to please them; and they employed for the purpose P. Clodius, an unprincipled Demo orat, and a Tribune of the year 58 Clodius drew attention to the illegality of the execution of the Catilina rians, overawed both Senate and Consuls by the violence Of his attitude and the presence of his armed partisans, and ultimately compelled Cicero to go into banishment. In the next year Pompeius quarrelled with Clodius, and to spite him procured the recall of Cicero (57 who, his political activity being crippled by the Triumvirate, devoted his elo quence to the defence of his friends. In 56 he delivered his speech Pro Sestio, in 54: the Pro Plcmcio, and in 52 the Pro Milone. In 55 he was admitted to the College of Augurs; and in 51 he acted as Governor of the province of Cilicia, where he conducted with success some small military Operations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.