All this account is taken from the argument by Asconius Servius, serving as an introduction to his Commentary on the Oration for Milo. (See the edit. of Orelli, pp. 41, 42. – Dio Cassius, XL. 53.)
755
Dio Cassius, XL. 54.
756
Velleius Paterculus, II. 68.
757
Plutarch, Pompey, 58.
758
Dio Cassius, XL. 53.
759
Appian, Civil Wars, II. 24.
760
Dio Cassius, XL. 52.
761
Plutarch, Pompey, 59.
762
Dio Cassius, XL. 56; comp. 30.
763
Tacitus, Annales, III. 28.
764
“Shall I pronounce against Cæsar? But what then becomes of that faith sworn, when, for this same privilege which he demands, I myself, at his prayer at Ravenna, went to solicit Cœlius, the tribune of the people? What do I say, at this prayer! at the prayer of Pompey himself, then invested with his third consulship, of eternal memory.” (Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, VII. 1.
765
“It is he, Pompey, who has absolutely willed that the ten tribunes should propose the decree which permitted Cæsar to ask for the consulship without coming to Rome.” (Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, VIII. 3. – Dio Cassius, XL. 56. – Suetonius, Cæsar, 28.)
766
Appian, Civil Wars, II. 25.
767
Plutarch, Pompey, 55. – Valerius Maximus, IX. 5. – Appian, Civil Wars, II. 23, 24.
768
Dio Cassius, XL. 57.
769
“ … He (Vercingetorix) reckoned on persuading all Gaul to take arms while they were preparing at Rome a revolt against Cæsar. If the chief of the Gauls had deferred his enterprise until Cæsar had the civil war to contend with, he would have struck all Italy with no less terror than was caused in former days by the Cimbri and the Teutones.” (Plutarch, Cæsar, 28.)
770
“In all Gaul there are only two classes of men who count and are considered (the Druids and the knights), for the people have hardly any other rank than that of slaves.” (De Bello Gallico, VI. 13.)
771
Dio Cassius, XL. 50.
772
De Bello Gallico, VI. 12.
773
De Bello Gallico, VI. 15.
774
De Bello Gallico, VI. 4.
775
De Bello Gallico, VI. 12.
776
De Bello Gallico, VI. 4.
777
De Bello Gallico, VII. 76.
778
De Bello Gallico, V. 27.
779