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      "summary": "Cicero recalls learning civil law by hearing Q. Scaevola answer consultations, then devoting himself to Philo after the Academic philosopher fled the Mithridatic war and reached Rome.",
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      "limit": "Six months is explicit in the passage; the BCE placement is conventional. The present TEI has a textual difficulty after the statement about travelling through Asia, so it should not be silently cleaned into a confident itinerary.",
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      "summary": "Cicero recalls going to Rhodes to study again with Molon and credits him with restraining an excessive youthful manner. He describes returning after two years with a changed voice and delivery.",
      "limit": "This is Cicero’s account of stylistic self-correction; it does not prove a single teacher caused every change. The two-year interval belongs to the whole journey.",
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      "label": "The same departure explained through fear",
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      "dateKind": "historical episode or activity",
      "summary": "Plutarch says Cicero left for Greece through fear of Sulla after successfully defending Roscius, while circulating a report that his body required treatment.",
      "limit": "This later narrative differs in emphasis from Brutus 313–314. It does not by itself demonstrate that Cicero’s health explanation was false.",
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      "summary": "Cicero recalls having been quaestor in Sicily and represents that office as the origin of Sicilian confidence in him as a protector.",
      "limit": "The office is first-person testimony; the claim that all Sicilians retained a pleasant and lasting memory is an advocacy claim. This passage does not specify Lilybaeum.",
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      "summary": "At the opening of the Divinatio, Cicero portrays himself as a long-serving defender who has harmed nobody, then promises to explain why he should now be preferred as prosecutor.",
      "limit": "This is persuasive self-presentation to a tribunal selecting a prosecutor; it is not a neutral census of his legal career or the trial verdict against Verres. The selected sentence does not explicitly say that he had never prosecuted before; laeserim neminem belongs to his ethical self-presentation.",
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      "limit": "These allegations are mediated through Cicero’s indirect speech. Their presence establishes what he represents the petitioners as saying, not independent verification of every accusation.",
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      "summary": "Plutarch represents Cicero as defeating attempts to delay the Verres proceedings by bringing forward witnesses and asking the judges to vote instead of relying on lengthy speeches.",
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      "label": "The executions under the consul’s direction",
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      "dateKind": "speech occasion; not edition publication",
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      "dateKind": "historical episode or activity",
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      "start": -69,
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      "label": "Quaestorship in Spain · 西班牙财务官",
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      "dateBasis": "Conventional scholarly chronology; year/range granularity.",
      "dateKind": "historical episode or activity",
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      "evidenceStatus": "existing chronology; textual contexts retain their own evidence status",
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      "dateKind": "historical episode or activity",
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      "limit": "These are distinct occasions, not one dated programme. The witness supplies examples rather than a direct measurement of popular support.",
      "evidenceStatus": "existing chronology; textual contexts retain their own evidence status",
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      "datePrecision": "conventional-year",
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      "dateKind": "historical episode or activity",
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      "limit": "Their accounts are later biographies. Reported bribery and recalled remarks require their own evidential qualification. The paired characterization is Sallust’s moral construction, not a complete inventory of either man’s policies.",
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          "label": "Caesar and Cato · 凯撒与加图",
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      "start": -62,
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      "label": "Praetorship · 裁判官",
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      "dateKind": "historical episode or activity",
      "summary": "Chronology entry supported by the cited modern timeline; no ancient passage dossier is attached in Caesar World.",
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      "evidenceStatus": "existing chronology; textual contexts retain their own evidence status",
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      "world": "caesar",
      "kind": "life",
      "start": -61,
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      "label": "Spanish command · 西班牙统帅",
      "dateLabel": "61 BCE",
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      "dateKind": "historical episode or activity",
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      "evidenceStatus": "existing chronology; textual contexts retain their own evidence status",
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      "originalDate": {
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      "label": "Coalition with Pompey and Crassus · 与庞培、克拉苏结盟",
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      "label": "Renewed provincial commands · 行省统帅权续期",
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          "label": "Candidacy in absence · 缺席参选",
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        {
          "label": "Who wrote the corpus? · 作者边界",
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          "label": "Crossing into Italy · 进入意大利",
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      "dateKind": "historical episode or activity",
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      "label": "Alexandrian settlement and Zela · 亚历山大里亚安排与泽拉",
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    {
      "id": "caesar:ev21",
      "world": "caesar",
      "kind": "life",
      "start": -45,
      "end": -45,
      "label": "Spanish campaign · 西班牙战事",
      "dateLabel": "45 BCE",
      "datePrecision": "conventional-year",
      "dateBasis": "Conventional scholarly chronology; year/range granularity.",
      "dateKind": "historical episode or activity",
      "summary": "Chronology entry supported by the cited modern timeline; no ancient passage dossier is attached in Caesar World.",
      "limit": "The date register supplies year-level navigation. No ancient passage has been newly assigned to this event.",
      "evidenceStatus": "existing chronology; textual contexts retain their own evidence status",
      "sources": [],
      "dateSources": [
        {
          "citation": "Batstone and Damon, Caesar’s Civil War (2006), timeline, pp. 173–177.",
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          "printedPages": "173–177"
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      "sourceRecord": "ev21",
      "sourceDataset": "historiae-latina/caesar-world/atlas.json",
      "originalDate": {
        "start": -45,
        "end": -45
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "caesar:ev22",
      "world": "caesar",
      "kind": "life",
      "start": -45,
      "end": -44,
      "label": "Extraordinary honours and lifetime dictatorship · 非常荣誉与终身独裁",
      "dateLabel": "45–44 BCE",
      "datePrecision": "conventional-range",
      "dateBasis": "Conventional scholarly chronology; year/range granularity.",
      "dateKind": "historical episode or activity",
      "summary": "Suetonius and Plutarch report the dictatorship for life and connect extraordinary honours with the crisis of Caesar’s rule.",
      "limit": "The biographies evaluate the honours differently. “Emperor” in the old English translation of Suetonius is not a sufficient definition of Republican imperator.",
      "evidenceStatus": "existing chronology; textual contexts retain their own evidence status",
      "sources": [
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          "url": "/historiae-latina/caesar-world/claim/dictatorship.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "suet 76",
          "url": "/historiae-latina/caesar-world/index.html#view=reader&work=suet&locus=76"
        },
        {
          "label": "plut 57",
          "url": "/historiae-latina/caesar-world/index.html#view=reader&work=plut&locus=57"
        }
      ],
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          "printedPages": "173–177"
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      ],
      "sourceRecord": "ev22",
      "sourceDataset": "historiae-latina/caesar-world/atlas.json",
      "originalDate": {
        "start": -45,
        "end": -44
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "caesar:ev23",
      "world": "caesar",
      "kind": "life",
      "start": -44,
      "end": -44,
      "label": "Assassination and will · 遇刺与遗嘱",
      "dateLabel": "44 BCE",
      "datePrecision": "conventional-year",
      "dateBasis": "Conventional scholarly chronology; year/range granularity.",
      "dateKind": "historical episode or activity",
      "summary": "Suetonius narrates a coordinated attack in the Senate meeting and qualifies the saying addressed to Brutus as something some authors reported. Suetonius reports Octavius as principal heir and testamentary adoptee and records bequests to the Roman people.",
      "limit": "The Greek saying is not a secure last utterance. Exact wording and details of the attack vary across narratives. The surviving text reports a will; the graph distinguishes testamentary adoption from marriage and blood descent.",
      "evidenceStatus": "existing chronology; textual contexts retain their own evidence status",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "The assassination · 遇刺",
          "url": "/historiae-latina/caesar-world/claim/assassination-report.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "suet 82",
          "url": "/historiae-latina/caesar-world/index.html#view=reader&work=suet&locus=82"
        },
        {
          "label": "Octavius and the will · 屋大维与遗嘱",
          "url": "/historiae-latina/caesar-world/claim/testament.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "suet 83",
          "url": "/historiae-latina/caesar-world/index.html#view=reader&work=suet&locus=83"
        }
      ],
      "dateSources": [
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          "citation": "Batstone and Damon, Caesar’s Civil War (2006), timeline, pp. 173–177.",
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          "printedPages": "173–177"
        }
      ],
      "sourceRecord": "ev23",
      "sourceDataset": "historiae-latina/caesar-world/atlas.json",
      "originalDate": {
        "start": -44,
        "end": -44
      }
    }
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      "id": "catiline",
      "title": {
        "en": "63 BCE · the Catilinarian crisis",
        "zh": "前63年 · 喀提林危机"
      },
      "kind": "shared-context",
      "start": -63,
      "end": -63,
      "cicero": [
        "cicero:cic-013"
      ],
      "caesar": [
        "caesar:ev04"
      ],
      "reading": "Read the consul’s direction of the executions beside Sallust’s comparison of Caesar and Cato. The selected passages illuminate different parts of the same political crisis.",
      "limit": "Sallust 54 and 55 belong to the same work. Adjacent presentations do not add independent testimony or establish a personal exchange between Cicero and Caesar.",
      "status": "editorial cross-reference; independent scholarly review pending"
    },
    {
      "id": "exile-gaul",
      "title": {
        "en": "58–57 BCE · exile and Gallic campaigns",
        "zh": "前58—57年 · 流放与高卢战事"
      },
      "kind": "parallel",
      "start": -58,
      "end": -57,
      "cicero": [
        "cicero:cic-014",
        "cicero:cic-015",
        "cicero:cic-016"
      ],
      "caesar": [
        "caesar:ev09"
      ],
      "reading": "Follow Cicero’s exile and return alongside the early years of Caesar’s Gallic campaigns.",
      "limit": "This is a chronological parallel. The selected entries alone do not prove that one development caused the other.",
      "status": "editorial cross-reference; independent scholarly review pending"
    },
    {
      "id": "coalition-courts",
      "title": {
        "en": "56 BCE · coalition and forensic politics",
        "zh": "前56年 · 联盟与法庭政治"
      },
      "kind": "parallel",
      "start": -56,
      "end": -56,
      "cicero": [
        "trial:sestius-56"
      ],
      "caesar": [
        "caesar:ev10"
      ],
      "reading": "Place the Sestius trial next to the renewed alliance in the existing Caesar chronology.",
      "limit": "Same-year placement is a reading prompt, not evidence that the alliance determined the verdict. The disagreement over the March day remains in the trial’s date basis.",
      "status": "editorial cross-reference; independent scholarly review pending"
    },
    {
      "id": "pompey-courts",
      "title": {
        "en": "54–52 BCE · courts, commands and Pompey",
        "zh": "前54—52年 · 法庭、统帅权与庞培"
      },
      "kind": "shared-context",
      "start": -54,
      "end": -52,
      "cicero": [
        "trial:gabinius-maiestas-54",
        "trial:gabinius-repetundae-54",
        "trial:milo-52"
      ],
      "caesar": [
        "caesar:ev12",
        "caesar:ev13",
        "caesar:ev14"
      ],
      "reading": "Compare the court narratives concerning Pompey’s influence with the chronological sequence of Julia’s death, Crassus’ death and Pompey’s sole consulship.",
      "limit": "These are connected political settings, not one event. Gabinius’ two proceedings remain distinct; the extortion trial may extend into 53 BCE.",
      "status": "editorial cross-reference; independent scholarly review pending"
    },
    {
      "id": "civil-war",
      "title": {
        "en": "49–48 BCE · war and political choice",
        "zh": "前49—48年 · 内战与政治抉择"
      },
      "kind": "shared-context",
      "start": -49,
      "end": -48,
      "cicero": [
        "cicero:cic-019",
        "cicero:cic-020",
        "cicero:cic-021"
      ],
      "caesar": [
        "caesar:ev16",
        "caesar:ev17",
        "caesar:ev18"
      ],
      "reading": "Read Cicero’s uncertainty, his joining Pompey and the later account of his withdrawal beside Caesar’s Italian campaign and Pharsalus.",
      "limit": "Shared conflict does not mean the entries describe the same encounter. Cicero’s letters, Caesar’s narrative and later biographies retain separate perspectives and dates.",
      "status": "editorial cross-reference; independent scholarly review pending"
    },
    {
      "id": "caesarian-speeches",
      "title": {
        "en": "46–45 BCE · Cicero addresses Caesar",
        "zh": "前46—45年 · 西塞罗向凯撒陈辞"
      },
      "kind": "direct-address",
      "start": -46,
      "end": -45,
      "cicero": [
        "speech:phi032",
        "speech:phi033",
        "speech:phi034",
        "trial:ligarius-46"
      ],
      "caesar": [
        "caesar:ev20",
        "caesar:ev21",
        "caesar:ev22"
      ],
      "reading": "Open the same numbered speech in either reader and compare advocacy, praise and appeals to Caesar with the surrounding chronology of his rule.",
      "limit": "Direct address is grounded in the speeches, not inferred from overlapping dates. The African and Spanish campaigns are context, not the occasion of each speech; the Ligarius dossier does not make every speech a jury trial.",
      "status": "editorial cross-reference; independent scholarly review pending"
    },
    {
      "id": "after-caesar",
      "title": {
        "en": "44–43 BCE · assassination and aftermath",
        "zh": "前44—43年 · 遇刺与后续政治"
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      "kind": "aftermath",
      "start": -44,
      "end": -43,
      "cicero": [
        "cicero:cic-024",
        "cicero:cic-025",
        "cicero:cic-026"
      ],
      "caesar": [
        "caesar:ev23"
      ],
      "reading": "Move from Caesar’s assassination to Cicero’s retrospective account of an amnesty proposal and the later narratives of Cicero’s death.",
      "limit": "Caesar’s lane ends at 44 BCE. Cicero’s 43 BCE entries are aftermath, not continued personal interaction with Caesar. These witnesses do not establish a single inevitable causal chain.",
      "status": "editorial cross-reference; independent scholarly review pending"
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  "policy": {
    "en": "One year scale; distinct sources and date bases. Ranges may express uncertainty, activity or textual coverage. Coincidence does not establish interaction, causation or corroboration.",
    "zh": "共用年份轴，分别保留来源与定年依据。区间可表示不确定年代、活动持续期或文本覆盖期；同时发生不等于互动、因果或互证。"
  },
  "scope": "30 Cicero biography claims, nine trial dossiers, three Caesarian speeches and 23 Caesar chronology entries. Counts refer to source entries, not unique historical events. A blank lane means no selected entry, not inactivity.",
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