The Life of Cicero Volume II Part 17

[137] Ad Div., xiv., 22, 20. The numbers going the wrong way is only an indication that the letters were wrongly placed by Graevius.

[138] Ad Att., lib. xi., 22.

[139] Oratoriae Part.i.tiones, xvii., xxiii.

[140] De Officiis, lib. i., ca. x.x.xi.: "Catoni c.u.m incredibilem tribuisset natura gravitatem, eamque ipse perpetua constantia robora.s.set, semperque in proposito susceptoque consilio permansisset, moriendum potius quam tyranni vultum aspiciendum fuit."

[141] This was Lucius Volcatius Tullus.

[142] But it is now, I believe, the opinion of scholars that Wolf has been proved to be wrong, and the words to have been the very words of Cicero, by the publication of certain fragments of ancient scholia on the Pro Marcello which have been discovered by Cardinal Mai since the time of the dispute.

[143] Ad Div., iv., 11.

[144] Pro Marcello, ii.

[145] Pro Ligario, i.

[146] Pro Ligario, iii.

[147] Ad Fam., lib. iv., 14.

[148] Ad Div., lib. ix., 16.

[149] Ad Att., lib. xii., 7.

[150] Ibid., 32.

[151] Ad Div., lib. xvi., 21.

[152] Pliny, Hist. Nat., lib. xiv., 28.

[153] Ad Div., lib. vi., 18.

[154] Ad Att., lib. xii., 12.

[155] Ibid., 18, 28.

[156] Ad Att., lib. xii., 14.

[157] Ibid., 18, 28.

[158] Ad Att., lib. xiii., 28.

[159] Suetonius, Julius Caesar, ca. x.x.xvii.

[160] Ad Att., lib. xiii., 44.

[161] Ad Att., lib xiii., 42.

[162] Pro Rege Deiotaro, ii.

[163] Ibid., ca. xii.: "Solus, inquam, es, C. Caesar, cujus in victoria cecide it nemo nisi armatus."

[164] Caesar, De Bello Gallico, lib. iii., 16: "Itaque, omni Senatu necato, reliquos sub corona vendidit," he says, and pa.s.ses on in his serene, majestic manner.

[165] Quint., lib. x., vii.: "Nam Ciceronis ad praesens modo tempus aptatos libertus Tiro contraxit."

[166] Horace, Epis., lib. i., 1: "Nullus in orbe sinus Baiis praelucet amaenis."

[167] Ad Att., lib. xiii., 52.

[168] Ad Div., lib. vii., 30.

[169] Mommsen, book v., xi.

[170] He left Brundisium on the last day of the year.

[171] Shakspeare, Julius Caesar, act i., sc. 2.

[172] Ad Att., lib. xiv., 9, 15.

[173] Quintilian, lib. vii., 4.

[174] These words will be found in M. Du Rozoir's summary to the Philippics.

[175] Ad Att., lib. xiv., 1.

[176] Ibid., 14: "Quam oculis cepi justo interitu tyranni."

[177] Morabin, liv. vi., chap. iii., sec. 6.

[178] Velleius Paterculus, lib. ii., ca. lviii.

[179] Mommsen, book v., xi.

[180] Ad Att., lib. xiv., 4.

[181] Ibid., lib. xiv., 6.

[182] Ibid., lib. xiv., 7.

[183] Ad Att., lib. xiv., 9.

[184] Ibid., lib. xiv., 11.

[185] Ad Att., lib. xiv., 13.

[186] Ad Div., lib. xvi., 23.