WI: Cicero never goes to Rome?

What if Cicero never goes to Rome and stays in Arpinium or just never works as a laywer or politician?
 
You have to change who Cicero is for this to work. That said, I'm not exactly sure. We'd certainly have a lot less literature on the period. He has such a major impact on everything from how the Catilinarian conspiracy was handled, which leads to the politics in the couple years following and then in the late-mid 50s with Clodius' standoff with the rest of the senate, which was largely shaped by Cicero's exile and recall. Then you have to account for different outcomes potentially in some key trials, in perhaps a different path for the triumvirate, and I won't even get into the butterflies surrounding post-Caesar assassination since everything would be altered enough by then to butterfly the scenario occurring anywhere near as OTL.
 
He's never famous and someone else gets to mop up Catilina's mess. Simples! :D
Better : there is no Catilina's mess.
Cicero and Sallust describe Catilina as a very good general and politician. I think without Cicero he could have won the election for consulship and there is no conspiracy.
I would have never failed to translate one of his damn complicated speeches.
That's the reason I did this.

What political career has Verres without Cicero and what do the sicilians do if Verres can continue his career?
 
Well, Verres is still probably condemned in the courts since Cicero also acted on behalf of Pompey who had become the main patron in Sicily.

Consider this point : Verres angered Pompey and his clients in Sicily. He was attached by Cicero and condemned. One year later, Fonteius was attacked because he had inflicted the same damages to gaulish provincials, but he had given pr clous help to Pompey in his spanish campaign. He was defended by Cicero and acquitted.
 
Wouldn't an easier way to get rid of him be an accident of some kind doing the Social War by somehow landing himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, either dropping in a battle, or by some kind of camp disease (wasn't he somewhat frail as a youth?)
 
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