Packet 5: Tossup 12

The author asks the Olympians how to handle this event in a fragmentary poem featuring the notoriously bad line “O fortunatam (15[2])natam me consule Romam.” A crowd was told “they have lived” during this event, (15[1])which (15[1])followed a drop in coin minting according to the discussion of its legacy that begins Mary (15[1])Beard’s SPQR. (15[1]-5[1])Gaius (-5[1])Antonius (15[1])Hybrida (15[3])ends (15[1])this event (-5[1])by (15[1])defeating an army of farmers and unpaid veterans in Sallust’s account of the Battle of (15[1])(*) Pistoria. (10[2])Cato the Younger and Caesar debated whether to execute (10[1])accomplices (10[1])of this event’s (10[1]-5[1])leader. (10[5])During (10[1]-5[1])this (-5[1])event, (10[1]-5[1])a politician (10[1])exclaimed (10[1])“o tempora, (10[2])o (10[1])mores!” (10[1])in the Temple of Jupiter (10[1])after asking “when do you mean to cease abusing our patience?” (-5[1])in one of (10[1])four accusatory orations. For 10 points, a disaffected senator led what 63 (10[1])BC coup (10[1])against Cicero’s consulship? (10[3])■END■ (10[4]0[1])

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