Plutarch, Cæsar, 6.
912
Plutarch, Cæsar, 6.
913
Plutarch, Cæsar, 6.
914
Suetonius, Cæsar, 11. – Cicero, First Oration on the Agrarian Law, i. 16.
915
Justin, xxix. 5, Scholiast of Bobbio, On the Oration of Cicero, “De Rege Alexandrino,” p. 350, edit. Orelli.
916
Cicero, Second Oration on the Agrarian Law, xvi.
917
“Augustus made it one, among other state maxims, to sequester Egypt, forbidding the Roman knights and senators of the first rank ever to go there without his permission. He feared that Italy might be famished by the first ambitious person who should seize the province, where, holding the keys of both land and sea, he might defend himself with very few soldiers against great armies.” (Tacitus, Annals, II. 59.)
918
Suetonius, Cæsar, 11.
919
Dio Cassius, XXXVII. 9.
920
“You name me a foreigner because I have come from a municipal town. If you regard us as foreigners, although our name and rank were formerly well established at Rome, and in public opinion, how much then must these competitors be foreigners in your eyes, this élite of Italy, who come from all parts to dispute with you magistrateships and honours?” (Cicero, Oration for Sylla, 8.)
921
See Drumann, Julii, 147.
922
J. Paul, Sentences, V. iv., p. 417, edit. Huschke. – Justinian, Institutes, IV. xviii. § 5. – Appian, On the Office of the Proconsul, vii.
923
“Then, in the instructions directed against the sicarii, and the exceptions proposed by the Cornelian law, he ranked among these malefactors those who, during the proscription, had received money from the public treasury for having brought to Sylla the heads of Roman citizens.” (Suetonius, Cæsar, 11.)
924
Plutarch, Cato, 21. – Dio Cassius, XLVII. 6.
925
Cicero, Third Speech on the Agrarian Law, 4.
926
Dio Cassius, XXXVII. 10. – Asconius, Commentary on the Orations of Cicero, “In Toga Candida,” pp. 91, 92, edit Orelli.
927
Asconius, In Toga Candida, p. 91.
928
Sallust, Catiline, 19.
929
Plutarch, Cicero, 15.
930
“I am preparing at this moment to defend Catiline, my competitor. I hope, if I obtain his acquittal, to find him disposed to come to an understanding with me on our next steps. If he is against this, I will [I shall know what to do (?)] take my way.” (Cicero, Letters to Atticus, I. ii.)
931
Cicero, Oration for Sylla, 29.
932
Plutarch, Cato, 3.
933
Asconius, Cicero’s Oration, “In Toga Candida,” p. 82, edit. Orelli.
934
Plutarch, Cicero, 3.
935
They called new men those who amongst their ancestors counted none that had held a high magistracy. (Appian, Civil Wars, II. 2.) – Cicero also confirms this fact: “I am the first new man that, for a great number of years, is remembered to have been appointed consul; and this eminent post, in which the nobility were in a manner entrenched, and to which they had closed all the avenues, you have, to place me at your head, forced the barriers; you have desired that merit henceforth find them open.” (Cicero, Second Oration on the Agrarian Law, 1.)
936