CHAPTER VI.
_VERRES._ There are six episodes, or, as I may say, divisions in the life of Cicero to which special interest attaches itself.

The first is the accusation against Verres, in which he drove the miscreant howling out of the city.

The second is his Consulship, in which he drove Catiline out of the city, and caused certain other conspirators who were joined with the arch rebel to be killed, either legally or illegally.

The third was his exile, in which he himself was driven out of Rome.

The fourth was a driving out, too, though of a more honorable kind, when he was compelled, much against his will, to undertake the government of a province.