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, (15[1])which followed a drop in coin minting according to the discussion of its legacy that begins Mary Beard’s SPQR. Gaius Antonius Hybrida ends this event by (15[1])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 (10[1])of this event’s (-5[1])leader. During this event, a politician exclaimed “o tempora, o mores!” in the Temple of Jupiter 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 BC coup against Cicero’s consulship? ■END■ (10[1])

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