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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="C"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="m-caesonius-bio-1" n="m_caesonius_1"><head><label><persName xml:lang="la"><forename full="yes">M.</forename><surname full="yes">Caeso'nius</surname></persName></label></head><p>one of the judices at Rome, an upright man, who displayed his integrity in the inquiry into
      the murder of Cluentius, <date when-custom="-74">B. C. 74</date>, when C. Junius presided over the
      court. He was aedile elect with Cicero in <date when-custom="-70">B. C. 70</date>, and consequently
      would not have been able to act as judex in the following year, as a magistrate was not
      allowed to discharge the duties of judex during his year of office. This was one reason among
      others why the friends of Verres were anxious to postpone his trial till <date when-custom="-69">B.
       C. 69</date>. The praetorship of Caesonius is not mentioned, but he must have obtained it in
      the same year as Cicero, namely, <date when-custom="-66">B. C. 66</date>, as Cicero writes to
      Atticus in 65, that there was some talk of Caesonius becoming a candidate with him for the
      consulship. (Cic. <hi rend="ital">Verr.</hi> Act. 1.10 ; Pseudo-Ascon. <hi rend="ital">in loc.
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      <bibl n="Cic. Att. 1.1">Cic. Att. 1.1</bibl>.) This Caesonius is probably the one whom Cicero
      speaks of in <date when-custom="-45">B. C. 45</date>. (<hi rend="ital">Ad Att.</hi> 12.11.)</p></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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