Latin Texts & Translations

Note return to page This rhetorical exercise was evidently composed by some one who knew the general facts of the last year of Cicero's life well. But it is not a successful imitation of his style, nor is there any conceivable juncture of affairs at which Cicero would have ventured to write thus to Octavian.

Note return to page After the battle of Pharsalia Caesar seems to have ruled Macedonia and Greece by legates, first as a mere military occupation under Fufius, and then in a more regular way under Servius Sulpicius Rufus (vol. iii., p.136).

Note return to page The fourth and the Martian.

Note return to page Sua caede. Perhaps it should be tua, "by the slaughter you inflicted on it."

Note return to page For Cicero's dream of a child let down from heaven by a gold chain, see Suet. Aug. 94; Dio, 45, 12; Plut. Cic. 44. This seems a confused reference to it.

Note return to page Suet. Aug. 4.

Note return to page Apparently men who hang about the forum ready for a consideration to make depositions or act as formal guarantees, like the touts at Doctors' Commons described in Pickwick.

Note return to page He seems to mean "to accept dismissal from the gladiatorial school and serve him as a bodyguard." Cp. vol. ii., p.251.

Note return to page Plutarch, Marius, 14.