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 Beard’s SPQR. Gaius Antonius Hybrida 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 (10[1])leader. During this event, a politician (10[1])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■

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