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Loeb lives print the 58 BCE Clodius-driven exile as a forced absence from Rome

Standard Loeb and encyclopedia narration print that Clodius’s law sent Cicero from Rome in 58 BCE as received. The dated public carrier is that modern account plus the exile letters in Loeb. In the causal graph this event strengthens Forced-Displacement Scale, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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Standard Loeb and encyclopedia narration print that Clodius’s law sent Cicero from Rome in 58 BCE as received. The dated public carrier is that modern account plus the exile letters in Loeb.

Context

Exile of a consul-orator is not a refugee census. High confidence on the received flight; small scale.

Cicero is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

A printed 58 BCE exile is displacement, not tourism, and not an ISO passport stamp.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Cicero

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    Named orator as heading of later editions. Editors, printers, and later republican readers publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Harvard / Loeb — Cicero, Letters to AtticusHarvard University Press · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — CiceroEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorCicero
  2. contributed toFactLoeb lives print the 58 BCE Clodius-driven exile as a forced absence from Rome
  3. strengthensDriverForced-Displacement Scale
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

Cite this page

Factrail. (2026). Loeb lives print the 58 BCE Clodius-driven exile as a forced absence from Rome. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/cic-exile-58-as-later

https://factrail.ai/facts/cic-exile-58-as-later

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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