History of Julius Caesar Vol. 1 of 2

Sallust, Catiline, 23.

937

“Cicero favoured sometimes the one, sometimes the other, to be sought after by both parties.” (Dio Cassius, XXXVI. 26.)

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Second Oration on the Agrarian Law, 25.

939

The territories conceded by a treaty being excepted, which freed from this obligation the African territory, which had become, since Scipio, the property of the Republic, and given by Pompey to Hiempsal. In Campania every colonist was obliged to have ten jugera, and, on the territory of Stella, twelve.

940

Cicero, Second Oration on the Agrarian Law, 26.

941

Cicero, Letters to Atticus, II. 1. – Plutarch, Cicero, 17. – “When young Romans, full of merit and honour, have found themselves in such a position that their admissibility to magistracies has effected the overthrow of the State, I have dared to brave their enmity, to interdict their access to the comitia and to honours.” (Cicero, Oration against L. Piso.)

942

“They wish to deprive the Republic of all refuge, of every guarantee of safety in difficult conjunctures.” (Cicero, Oration for Rabirius, 2.)

943

“This supreme power which, according to the institutions of Rome, the Senate confers upon the magistrates, consists in raising troops, in making war, in keeping to their duties, by every means, the allies and citizens; in exercising supremely, equally at Rome or abroad, both civil and military authority. In all other cases, without the express order of the people, none of these prerogatives are conferred upon the consuls.” (Sallust, Catiline, 29.)

944

Cicero, Oration for Rabirius, 9.

945

Suetonius, Cæsar, 12.

946

Dio Cassius, XXXVII. 26, 27.

947

Macrobius, Saturnalia, I. 16. – Priscian, vi., p. 710, edit. Putsch. – Macrobius (l. c.) quotes the 16th book of the treatise of Cæsar on the Auspices. – Dio Cassius (xxxvii.) expresses himself thus: “Above all, because he had supported Labienus against Rabirius, and had not voted for the death of Lentulus.” But the Greek author errs: the nomination of Cæsar to the high pontificate took place before the conspiracy of Catiline. (See Velleius Paterculus, II. 43.)

948

Appian, Civil Wars, II. 1, 8, 14.

949

Plutarch, Cæsar, 7.

950

Plutarch, Cæsar, 7.

951

Suetonius, Cæsar, 13.

952

Suetonius, Cæsar, 46.

953

“On the 23rd of August, the day of inauguration of Lentulus, flamen of Mars, the house was decorated, and couches of ivory were set up in the triclinia. In the two first halls were the pontiffs Q. Catulus, M. Æmilius Lepidus, D. Silanus, C. Cæsar, king of the sacrifices, and … L. Julius Cæsar, augur. The third received the vestals. The repast was thus composed: – For the first course: sea-urchins, raw oysters in any quantity, pelorides (a kind of oyster of extraordinary size), spondyli (shell-fish of the oyster kind), thrushes, asparagus; and, lower down, a fat hen, a vol-au-vent of large oysters, and sea-acorns black and white (sea and river shell-fish according to Pliny). Then more spondyli, glycomarides (another shell-fish mentioned by Pliny), sea-nettles, beccaficos, filets of venison and wild boar, fatted fowls powdered with flour, beccaficos, murices and purple fish (shell-fish bristling with points, which yielded the purple of the ancients). Second course: sows’ udders, wild boar’s head, fish-pie, sows’ udder-pie, ducks, boiled teal, hares, roast fowls, starch (flour that is obtained in the same manner as starch, without grinding – many sorts of creams, amylaria, were made of it), loaves from Picenum.” (Macrobius, Saturnalia, III. 9.)

954

“It was at the very point when it required no more to upset the weakly government than a slight impulse from the first bold man who presented himself.” (Plutarch, Cicero, 15.)

955

Cicero, Oration for M. Cælius, 5. This oration was delivered in the year 698.

956

Plutarch, Cicero, 19.

957

Sallust, Catiline, 27, 28.

958

This is deduced from what Florus (III. 6) says of the command of the fleet which L. Gellius had, and from a passage in Cicero. (First Oration after his Return, 7.) – L. Gellius expresses himself clearly upon the danger the Republic had run, and proposed the awarding of a civic crown to Cicero. (Cicero, Letters to Atticus, XII. 21; Oration against Piso, 3. – Aulus Gellius, V. 6.)

959

Cicero, First Catiline Oration, 1; Second Catiline Oration, 1.

960

Sallust, Catiline, 32.

961