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De Bello Gallico, IV. 38.
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“Cæsar was very proud of his expedition into Britain, and everybody at Rome cried it up with enthusiasm. People congratulated each other on becoming acquainted with a country of the existence of which they were previously ignorant, and of having penetrated into countries of which they had never heard before; everybody took his hopes for reality, and all that people flattered themselves with obtaining some day caused as great an outburst of joy as if they had already possessed it.” (Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 53.) – “After having landed in Britain, Cæsar believed he had discovered a new world. He wrote (it is unknown to whom) that Britain was not an island, but a country surrounding the ocean.” (Eumenius, Panegyrici, IV. 2.)
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Lucan, Pharsalia, II., line 571.
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“Without paying any attention to the opinion of Cato, the people during fifteen days performed sacrifices to celebrate this victory, and exhibited the greatest marks of joy.” (Plutarch, Nicias and Crassus, 4.)
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Plutarch, Cato of Utica, 58.
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See page 456.
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Cicero, Epist. Familiar., I. 7.
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Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 56, 57, 58. —Schol. Bob. Pro Plancio, 271.
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Plutarch, Antony, 2.
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Dio Cassius speaks of it as follows: “The influence of powerful men and of riches was so great, even against the decrees of the people and of the Senate, that Pompey wrote to Gabinius, governor of Syria, to charge him with the restoring of Ptolemy in Egypt, and that he, who had already taken the field, performed this task, in spite of the public will, and in contempt of the oracles of the Sibyl. Pompey only sought to do what would be agreeable to Ptolemy; but Gabinius had yielded to corruption. Afterwards, when brought under accusation for this fact, he was not condemned, thanks to Pompey and to his gold. There reigned then in Rome such a degree of moral disorder, that the magistrates and judges, who had received from Gabinius but a small part of the sums which had served to corrupt him, set their duties at nought in order to enrich themselves, and taught others to do evil, by showing them that they could easily escape punishment with money. It was this which caused Gabinius to be acquitted; in the sequel, brought to trial for having carried off from his province more than 100,000,000 drachmas, he was condemned.” (Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 55.)
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Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 43.
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Cicero, Epist. ad Quint., II. 8.
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See the Index Legum of Baiter, 181.
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Josephus, XIV. 48.
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Josephus, XIV. 11.
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Cicero, Ep. ad Atticum, IV. 18.
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Cicero, Ep. ad Quintum, IV. 15.
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Schol. Bob. Pro Sextio, 297. – Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, IV. 16; Epist. Familiar., XIII. 19.
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“Cæsar has written to me from Britain a letter dated on the Calends of September (28th of August), which I received on the 4th of the Calends of October (23rd of September). His mourning had prevented my replying and congratulating him.” (Cicero, Epist. ad Quintum, III. 1.)
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“In Cæsar’s affliction, I dare not write to him, but I write to Balbus.” (Cicero, Epist. Familiar., VII. 9.) – “How kind and affecting is Cæsar’s letter! There is in what he writes a charm which increases my sympathy for the misfortune which afflicts him.” (Cicero, Epist. ad Quintum, III. 1.)
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Plutarch, Pompey, 4.
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Suetonius, Cæsar, 27.
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Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, IV. 17. – Suetonius, Cæsar, 36.
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Pliny, Hist. Nat., XXXVI. 15.
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Appian, De Bel. Civil., II. 102.
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