1
That Cicero up to the time of his consulship had been connected rather with the populares is illustrated by Quintus (de Petit. i.) urging him to make it clear that he had never been a demagogue, but that if he had ever spoken "in the spirit of the popular party, he had done so with the view of attracting Pompey."
3
"The city, the city, my dear Rufus—stick to that, and live in its full light. Residence elsewhere—as I made up my mind early in life—is mere eclipse and obscurity to those whose energy is capable of shining at Rome."—Fam. ii. 12 (vol. ii., p. 166).
4
Even at these he found troublesome people to interrupt him. See vol. i., pp. 102, 104.
5
Yet the announcement of the birth of his son (p. 16) and of the dangerous confinement of Tullia (vol. ii., p. 403) are almost equally brief.
6
See Att. ii. 1, vol. i., p. 62; Plut. Cic. 13; Cic. in Pis. § 4.
7
See Att. ii. 1, vol. i., p. 62; Plut. Cic. 13; Cic. in Pis. § 4.
8
Die Entstchungsgeschichte der catilinarischen Verschwörung, by Dr. Constantin John, 1876. I am still of opinion that Plutarch's statement can be strongly supported.
9
Cæsar said, οὺ μὴν καὶ προσήκειν ἐπὶ τοῐς παρεληλυθόσι τοιοῠτόν τινα νόμον συγγράφεσθαι (Dio, xxxviii. 17).
10
"The man who did not so much as raise me up, when I threw myself at his feet."—Att. x. 4 (vol. ii., p. 362). Similar allusions to Pompey's conduct to him on the occasion often occur.
12
See vol. i., pp. 129, 138; cp. pro Planc. §§ 95-96.
15
Ever since its capture in the second Punic War, Capua had ceased to have any corporate existence, and its territory had been ager publicus, let out to tenants (aratores). Cæsar had restored its corporate existence by making it a colonia, and much of the land had been allotted to veterans of his own and Pompey's armies. The state thus lost the rent of the land, one of the few sources of revenue from Italy now drawn by the exchequer of Rome.
17
Quoted by Flavius Charisius, Ars Gramm. i., p. 126 (ed. Kiel).
22
Letter DXXXIII (Fam. iv. 14), about October, B.C. 46.
23
Vol. i., p. 226; Pliny, Ep., vii. 33.
24
Pomponia, married to Cicero's younger brother Quintus. We shall frequently hear of this unfortunate marriage. Quintus was four years younger than his brother, who had apparently arranged the match, and felt therefore perhaps somewhat responsible for the result (Nep. Att. 5).
25
Atticus had estates and a villa near Buthrotum in Epirus,—Butrinto in Albania, opposite Corfu.
26
This is probably Sext. Peducæus the younger, an intimate friend of Atticus (Nep. Att. 21); his father had been prætor in Sicily when Cicero was quæstor (b.c. 76-75), the son was afterwards a partisan of Cæsar in the Civil War, governor of Sardinia, b.c. 48, and proprætor in Spain, b.c. 39.
27
The person alluded to is L. Lucceius, of whom we shall hear again. See Letters V, VII, VIII,
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