Cæsar, when consul and dictator, declared many foreign cities free.
1085
It will be seen in the next chapter that Cæsar recognized as friends to the Roman people Auletes, king of Egypt, and Ariovistus, king of the Germans.
1086
Duumvirs, decemvirs, vigintivirs were the names given to magistrates who shared the same duties in boards of two, ten, or twenty. In the present case, however, the object was only to bind together the men of the greatest importance by a secret bond. Therefore the word triumvirate would be a misnomer.
1087
“He wished me to join these three intimate consular men.” (Cicero, Oration on the Consular Provinces, 17.)
1088
Dio Cassius, XXXVII. 57.
1089
Cicero, Familiar Letters, V. 12.
1090
Suetonius, Cæsar, 19. – Eutropius, VI. 14. – Plutarch, Cæsar, 13.
1091
Suetonius, Cæsar, 19.
1092
Plutarch, Cato, 26. – Suetonius, 19.
1093
“But will you say that we can only have the knights on our side by paying for them? What are we to do? Have we a choice of means?” (Cicero, Letters to Atticus, II. 1.)
1094
“Inde domum repetes toto comitante senatu,
Officium populi vix capiente domo.”
Ovid, Ex Ponto, IV. Epist. 4.
1095
Suetonius, Cæsar, 19.
1096
Dio Cassius, XXXVIII. 1.
1097
Appian, Civil Wars, II. 10.
1098
Cicero, Epistle to Atticus, II. 3. – “When consul, he wished me to take part in the operations of his consulship. Without approving them, I felt nevertheless grateful to him for his deference.” (Oration on the Consular Provinces, 17.)
1099
Plutarch, Cæsar, 14. – Suetonius, Cæsar, 21.
1100
Plutarch, Cæsar, 14.
1101
Plutarch, Cato, 24.
1102
Plutarch, Cato, 59.
1103
Suetonius, Cæsar, 20.
1104
Titus Livius, IX. 8.
1105
Appian, Civil Wars, II. 7.
1106
Cicero, Familiar Letters, XIII. 4.
1107
Dio Cassius, XXXVIII. 1.
1108