8th Reading/Terms Quiz
Part I: Identify two of these three terms. Tell the reader 1) What, where, or who it is, 2) provide some species of time frame, and 3) explain its significance for the purposes of this class. Three or four coherent sentences should do nicely.
Numidia (Starr, pp. 516-7); Populares; (Starr, p. 519); Caecilius Metellus (Plu. 1.550-3)
Part II: 1) Who wrote this? 2) What does it describe, and 3) why do we care? Provide your argument within a single, structured paragraph.
"And when the judges would have accepted this plea, Marius himself opposed it, and told Herennius that when he was first created magistrate he ceased to be his client, which was not altogether true. For it is not every office that frees clients and their posterity from the observance due to their patrons, but only those to which the law has assigned a curule chair."