Cicero is proscribed and killed
43 BCE · Event
The Second Triumvirate revives Sulla's proscriptions and Antony puts Cicero at the top of the list for the Philippics. Rome's greatest orator is caught at Formiae and offers his neck from his litter; his head and hands are nailed to the speaker's platform he made famous.
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