Round 5: Tossup 12

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

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