Suetonius, Cæsar, 17.
1012
Suetonius, Cæsar, 17.
1013
Suetonius, Cæsar, 50.
1014
Suetonius, Cæsar, 50.
1015
Plutarch, Cæsar, 10.
1016
Suetonius, Cæsar, 1. – Plutarch, Cicero, 27; Plutarch, Cæsar, 10. – “This sacrifice is offered by the vestal virgins, on behalf of the Roman people, in the house of a magistrate who has the right of imperium, with ceremonies that it is not allowable to reveal. The goddess to whom it is offered is one whose very name is a mystery to men, and whom Clodius terms the Good Goddess (Bona Dea), because she forgave him so gross an outrage.” (Cicero, Oration on the Report of the Augurs, 17.) – The Good Goddess, like the majority of the divinities of the earth among the ancients, was regarded as a sort of beneficent fairy who presided over the fertility of the fields and the conception of women. The nocturnal sacrifice was celebrated at the beginning of December, in the house of the consul or the prætor, by the wife of that magistrate, or by the vestal virgins. At the commencement of the festival they made a propitiatory sacrifice of a pig, and prayers were offered for the prosperity of the Roman people.
1017
Cicero, Letters to Atticus, I. 14.
1018
Cicero, Letters to Atticus, I. 16.
1019
Cicero, Letters to Atticus, I. 17.
1020
Appian, Mithridatic War, 101.
1021
Appian, Mithridatic War, 106.
1022
Dio Cassius, XXXVII. 20.
1023
Dio Cassius, XXXVII. 44. In contradiction to other authors, Dio Cassius asserts that the elections were adjourned. (Plutarch, Pompey, 45.)
1024
“The more men were terrified, the more they were re-assured, on seeing Pompey return to his country as a simple citizen.” (Velleius Paterculus, II. 40.)
1025
Cicero, Letters to Atticus, I. 12.
1026
Metellus was subjugating Crete, when Pompey sent one of his lieutenants to depose him, under the pretence that that island was included in his own wide jurisdiction by sea.
1027
Dio Cassius, XXXVII. 49.
1028
“No rectitude, no candour, not a single honourable motive in his policy; nothing elevated, nothing strong, nothing generous.” (Cicero, Letters to Atticus, I. 12.)
1029
Plutarch, Pompey, 47.
1030
Pliny, Natural History, XXXVII. 5.
1031
Vases from Carmania that were highly prized. They reflected the colours of the rainbow, and, according to Pliny, a single one was sold for seventy talents (more than 300,000 francs [£12,000]). (Pliny, Natural History, XXXVII, 7, 8.)
1032
Pliny, XXXIII. 54. – Strabo, XII. 545.
1033
Appian, War against Mithridates, 116.
1034
Pliny, Natural History, XII. 9, 54.
1035
Dio Cassius, XXXVI. 2. – Velleius Paterculus, II. 34.
1036