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CHEAPSIDE.
MDCCCXXXIX.
of
notes
and
references,
as
might
prove
of
utility
to
those
entering
upon
this
department
of
ancient
literature,
without
wearying
his
attention,
would
not
be
unacceptable
to
a
writers
of the
the
Preface
of
the
former.
134
iolence Cicero defends
307
Octavius
Caesar
arrives
.511
afterwards
reached,
the
ambitious
and
vindictive
Marine
entered
upon
an
existence,
whose
tenour
was
inco.
biographer
s
to
be
imperishable
ration,
in
which
the
talents
of
the
advocate
were
equalledby
is
disinte-estedness,
and
the
splendour
f
the
eloquencey
which
Fasti
Hellenic ,
ii.
136.
But
his
attention
was
not
occupied
by
the
disputes
and
pleadings
f
the
continued,
was
doubt-ully
maintained,
and
terminated
very
differently
rom
most
of
those
in
which
the
state
had
hitherto

33.
De
Claris
Omtoribus,
cap.
xc.
individuals,
fterwards
intimately
connected
with
his
fortunes,
were
deeplythough
dif-erently
concerned.
Marcus
Crassus
and
Pompey,
causes,
began
at
length
to
acquaint
im-elf
beforehand
with
their
leadingpoints,
for
the
purpose
of
appearing
n
the
character
of
an
advocate.
defence
of
Quintius
accusers
had
been
triumphantly
refuted,
was
strongly
suspected
of
having
ormed
his
subsequent
etermination
of
retir-
subdued
and
mo-
its
politi-al
influence,
t
continued,
or
many
centuries,
ore
enviably
pre-eminent.
The
Porch,
the
Academy,
the
Lyceum,
and
the
Gymnasium
celebrated
as
the
haunt
De
Clar.
Orator.,
cap.
xci.
master
Molo,
to
whom
he
confesses
his
obligations
for
checking
the
too
great
declaiming
on
one
occasion
before
this
master,
when
all
the
by-standers
ad
been
belief
in
a
retributive
the
observances
in
a
Roman
court
of
justice
n
such
occasions,
nd
the
more
equitable
ethods
of
pro-
orator's
life.
Terentia,
hose
family
must
have
been
by
the
Sicilians,
ut
his
general
affability
nd
courtesy,
his
willingness
o
listen
to
every
grievance,
nd
his
Pro
Plancio,
xvi.
Or
the
gates
near
the
quarter
of
Achradina,
the
former
reading
Agragianas,
having
been
recentlysuspected
to
be
a
corruption
of
Achradinas.
t
Tuscul.
Qusest.,
V.
xxiii.
of
its
mineral
waters,
and
Cicero,
shortly
after
his
landing,
n
meeting
with
a
former
acquaintance
as
surprised,
nstead
of
the
congratulations
n
his
return
from
Sicily,
r
the
compliments
on
was
much
more
the
people
of
more
efficient
training
nd
military
skill,
as
at
length
brought
to
a
conclusion
by
the
victory
f Marcus
from
that
of
the
others,termed,
by
way
of
distinction,
plebeian
a?diles,
s
yet
to
be
ascertained.
It
has
Plin.
Hist.
Nat.
lib.
xxxvi.
cap.
24.
worship
of
Yenus
Erycina.
The
and
to
prosecute
Dio
for
the
estate,
on
the
ground
that
he
had
neglected
o
comply
with
the
injunctions
f
the
testator.
The
injustice
as
exhibited
of the
and
of
all
mankind,
at
least
to
grant
him
a
fairand
strong
terms,
was
exposing
imself.
The
prosecution
as
therefore
reluctantlyropped,
but
Diodorus
was
only
able
to
preserve
his
plate
by
able
to
It
was
accordingly
orwarded
under
the
Provocationem
autem
etiam
aregibus
fuisse
declarant
pontificii
ibri,
ignificant
ostri
etiaru
augnrales.''
De
Republica,
lib.
ii.
cap.
31.
were,
in
consc-
vi.
xxxvi.
occurrence,
the
crew
of
a
vessel,
the
piratical
more
aged
or
less
prepossessing
n
appearance
patron
and
partisan,
nd
a
the
pleadings
f
Cicero
in
this
cause,
who
asserts
that
the
people
of
the
subject
provinces
ad
actually
ormed
Divinatio
anticipated,
nd,
indeed,
of
what
his
accuser
himself
had
originally
proposed
is
some
difficulty
n
accounting
Gavius,
art
of
rhetoric
might
not
receive
some
new
Ludi
Romani,
consecrated
to
Ju-
paying
policy.
despotism.
assignment
f
these
subjectsby
lot
according
o
thQ
usual
custom,
Cicero
was
appointed
acquitted
im.
This
brief,
but
expressive
emark,
may
lend
mate-ial
assistance
towards
a
due
appreciation
f
the
it,
ould
not
contemplate
ithout
some
compla-
pirates
s
escaped
the
pur-
war against Mithridates,
directing
ll
future
hostilities
against
ithridates,
n
the
hands
of
Pompey.
Pro
Lege
Manilla,
x.
defendant
might
not
meet
with
so
favourable
a
hearing
s
from
himself.
His
excuse
was
considered
as
perfectly
atisfactory,
ut
the
f
Such is
of the
actually
ronounced
in
a
court
of
justice.
from his
acquitted,
o
have
his
intimacy
and
support
during
heir
joint
2.
in Cic.
parties
engaged
cap.
xxiii.
mounted
to
ab-
atiline
wife,
having
formed
an
attachment
to
Aurelia
Ores-
tilla,
woman
of
great
beauty,
ancles,
oncealed
not
unfrequently
he
dagger,
hich
Cains
Antonius,
the
colleague
f
Cicero,
as
well
as
of
his
nephew,
was
too
t,
but
having
been
expelled
y
the
censors
from
the
senate
owards Cicero.
municipal
towns,
were
engaged
to
advance
the
cause
of
the
confederacy.
Cneius
Piso,
have
been
one
of
its
most
serviceable
members,
had
he
not
been
despatched
y
the
senate,
month.
$ Among
the
Romans,
the
great
officers
of
the
state
were
often
Sallust.
Catilina,
xii.
-f-
io.
xxxvii.
30.
G
an
extensive
revolt
among
the
common
people.
He,
at
the
same
time,
redoubled
his
effortsto
add
to
confidence
from
the
Forum,
cap.
4.
directed,
j*
uruin,
argentum,
ex
prseda,
ex
mnnubiis,
ex
coronario,
d
quoscumque
pervenit,
c.
Ibid.
xxii.
obviillatum
tenebat,
DC
LegeAgraria,
i.
cap.
J,
knights,
n
the
contrary,
who
re-
His
next
consular
oration,
according
o
his
own
enunlerationt,
as
that
in
defence
of
Gains
Rabirius,
who
was
accused
of
the
the
order.
public
mind
against
im,
and
so
vio-
Romae,
1820.
in Cic.
in
question
to
be
brought
Pro
Mmaeua,
cap.
ii.
t
wag
issued
on
the
occasion
referred
to
above.
H
who
was
also
anticipating
similar
honour,
as
the
reward
of
his
late
successes
against
he
pirates
n
Crete,
as
sent
in
plan
on
which
they
had
now
universally
etermined.
The
city,
it
was
resolved,
should
be
fired
who
was
at
once
given
to
them,
according
o
the
directions
of
Cicero,
but
continued
for
a
long
persist
n
their
applica-
position
ere
no
longer
such
as
to
be
trifled
with.
He
immediately
sent
its
rapid
accumulation
of
overwhelming
vi-
suddenly
gifted
with
a
voice
to
plead,
trumpet-
tongued,
drift
behind,
might
be
expected
o
be
paralysedby
the
public
exposure
of
by
a
formal
reply
Suilust.Bell.
Cat.
tap.
xxxi.
neighbourhood,
nd
from
thence
example
set
them
by
Catiline,
nd
to
free
the
city
rom
their
hated
and
pernicious
resence.
immediate
use.
While
such
were
the
preparations
f
the
conspirators,
the
public
attention
was,
for
a
short
time,
diverted
to
subjects
ery
different
from
those
which
had
lately
attracted
it,
by
the
impeachment
of
the
newly-elected
brought
against
uraena,
could
by
any
of
their
nation,
should
be
promised
under
the
hand
and
seal
of
Lentulus
and
following
day.
In
the
meantime
messengers
were
sent
to
Lentulus,
Cethegus,
tatilius,abinius,
nd
Quintus
given
them
under
oath
by
the
principal
onspirators
and
adding,
hat
cap.
xliv.
conspiracy,
hen
it
was
raised
to
its
pedestal
re-
they
were
virgins,
owever,
who
were
presiding
t
the
ceremony,
one
of
whom
was
Divine favour.
might
revive
the
spirits
f
his
adherents,
nd
rescue
his
friends
from
danger.
The
oration,
for
the
words
are
pregnant
learn
from
Sallust,
immediately
efore
the
departure
f
the
Allobroges.
Sallust.
Bell.
Catilin.xlix.
an
absence
of
all
feeling,
hich
appears
strangely
Sallust. Bell. Cat. lii.
Cic.
honours
were
not
long
in
being
added.
Most
of
the
municipal
towns
in
Italy,
s
Tantum
igitur
euros
intra
toga
contulit
illi
Nooiinis
et
tituli,
uantum
uon
Leucade,
quantum
illustrious
Country
glorious
ame.
GIFFORD'S
translation.
by
an
admiring
nd
applauding
rowd,
a
Servile
War.
CatO^ix.
highestegree
ealous,
n
having
acted
in
opposition
o
the
laws,
by
inflicting
eath
upon
conspirators
ecently
xecuted
without
to
Atticus,
which
has
been
sometimes
supposed
to
bear
reference
to
this
orntion,
is
considered
by
the
best
authorities
to
allude
to
that
afterwards
pronounced
against
Clodius
and
Curio.
so
strenuously
xerted
himself.
The
latter,
ow
forgetful
f
their
recent
enmity,
n
one
whose
interests
had
suffered
by
a
too
warm
espousal
uninvited advocate.
7.
transaction.
Cato.
as
Pro
Sulla,
vi.
mem-ers
of
the
conspiracy.
He
the
greatest
privacy
to
its
occupant
that the
making
any
offer
for
thi occasion.
atque
insita
Claudia
familioe
superbia.
L
future
dictator
had
little
reason
to
be
cista
or
chest
placed
to
receive
it,
and
the
majority
f
tablets
for
or
against
the
measure
were
taken
as
the
opinion
of
the
wholccentury.
See
Adam's
Roman
Antiquities,
vo.,
p.
85.
to
adorn
the
triumph
.
people
as
less
strictly
ttended
to.
you
are
the
supreme
Aris-
tarchus,
as
to
render
the
senate
willing
uditors
of
my
praises
praises
too,
vases
in
-which
artists
were
accustomed
to
keep
their
colours.
applause.
This
was
the
argument
of
my
discourse
the
conspiracy
the
ease
and
plenty
now
enjoyed.
You
know
Cicero,
recommending
him
to
Antonius,
at
this
time
proconsul
of
Macedonia,
is
still
preserved.
to
destroy
him
wife
of
Caesar
should
not
only
be
unsullied
by
actual
guilt,
ut
uninjuredby
the
slightest
hade
of
sus-icion.
The
answer
had
little
to
recommend
it
to
admiration.
Clodius,
with
a
numerous
and
audacious
faction
at
his
back,
was
too
useful
an
instrument
in
furthering
is
aspiring
rojects,
16.
ensuring
admira-ion
under
judicious
anagement
;
have been
now
constituted
him,
in
the
eyes
of
poem
on
the
subject
hould
be
completed.
E
margaritis,
njrue,
tam
prodiga
e
et
feminis
reperta,
quam
gerere
te
fas
non
sit,
hinc
fieri
tuos
vultus,
c.
c.
M
.
Pompey
and
the
Ad
Attic,
i.
12.
the crowd
so
many
regions
esolate,
nd
so
many
cities
tenantless,
slaughter
and
rest.
The
very
terms
of
the
coalition
argued
its
speedy
was com-osed,
balance,
notwithstanding
llthe
advantagespossessed
by
the
forces
of
the
senate.
With
the
prodigious
armament
placed
under
his
command,
bearing
with
blood
of
nearly
seven
legions,
nd
to
and
gifted
ndividual
who
now
began
to
attract
the
gaze
of
his
countrymen,
like
the
bright

Sylla,
when
possessed
f
the
same
power.
corrections,
o
his
friend
Atticus,
20,
ii.
1.
Ad
Attic,
ii.
4.
Sic
enim
sum
complcxus
otiiiui,
t
ab
eo
N
fame
Pope.
sua,
xvi.
per
ses
et
libram.
for
little
Pro
Flaccoj
xviii.
Pro
Flacco,
xli.
:
Attic, ii.19.
Caesar.
Ad
Attic,
ii.
19.
f
Ibid.
J
Ad
Attic,
ii.
20.
being
claimed
on
the
ground
of
conquest,
is
represented
s
based
on
the
safeguard
fforded
by
its
protection
rom
the
capricious
yranny
which
formerly
disgraced
he
Ad
Quint,
i.
1.
by
pros-ect
it
might
be
most
expected,
n
the
correspondence
of
Cicero
himself.
Capitol,
nd
resolved
to
send
a
formal
deputation
rom
thence
to
appeal
to
the
senate
consuls,
at
least
to
testify
heir
sympathy
with
the
subject
f
their
useless
intercession,
y
putting
n
mourning
ests.
he
was
obliged
o
O
had
been
introduced.
;
declared
Ad
Attic,
x.
4.
f
Cesar
had
lately
arried
his
secoiid
wife.Calpurnia,
he
daughter
of
Piso.
Heh'etii
from
making
their
ap-
in
succssion.
sua.
Pro
Sextio,
xxiv.
Hellenic ,
ol.
hi.
p.
184.
alterations
I
had
been
led
to
expect,
prohibiting
e
from
appear-ng
within
four
always
intervened
between
the
promulgation
nd
the
passing
f
a
law.
t
Ad
Attic,
iii.4.
that his
them is
delay,
hat
you
your
health,
selling.
I
expect
news
from
Rome
of
more
importance
than
anything
Dio
Cassius,
xxxviii.
Poinpey.
f
A.U.C.
697.
as
himself,
had
previouslyosted
his
gladiators
n
all
the
avenues
person
selected
for
the
victim
was
Xumerius
Quinctius,
an
individual
of
obscure
birth
x xvi.
upon
Pro
Sextio,
xxxviii.
senate,
in
the
Monu-ent
of
Marius,
by
which
the
return
of
Cicero
was
ultimately
determined.
Telamon
of
Accius,
repeated
shouts
were
uttered
move-ents
impatience.
His
letters
written
to
Atticus
from
that
city
represent
him
as
continuing
o
25,
26,
27.
promulgated
for
his
return
received
the
sanction
of
the
centuries
*
xxxi.
sought
a
Sen.
XT.
iv.
1.
Ad
Attic,
iv.
1.
Q
by
these
out-ages,
displayed
n
iv. 1.
upon
.2.
day,
making
repeated
fforts
to
carry
it
by
storm,
or
issue
iv. 3.
city
was
kept
in
an
uproar
Hist. Rom. xxxix.
library
f
Milan,
and
aie
to
be
found
in
the
latest
editions
of
Cicero's
works.
They
are,
however,
wholly
unimportant.
succession
of
disturb-
even
proposed
to
Cicero,
whether
sincerely
r
not,
to
enter
into
an
agreement
with
him
for
their
mutual
safety,
pretending
plot
against
is
life,
ncouraged
y
Crassus,
and
calling
n
ii. 4.
the Picenum.
theatre
at
spectators
from
the
place,
nd
keptpossession
f
it
for
themselves.
Ad
Quiiitum,
ii.
3,
4.
Caesar
had
been
informed
of
Cicero's
opposition
n
a
previous
interview
with
Crassus,
hich
took
place
at
Ravenna.
De
Provinciis
Consular]
bus,
xiii.
Advin.
Id.
Apr.
sponsalia
rassipedi
prsebui.
Ad
Quintum,
ii.
6.
Pro
L.
Cornelio
Balbo,
i.
to
client,
e
indulges
his
hostility
o
her
family
and
name
by
a
withering
exposure
of
her
vices.
His
expedient
f
summoning
attempts
to
throw
a
gloss
ver
the
dissolute
habits
of
the
ac-
impru-ence
of
his
enemies,who,
in
attempting
is
ruin,
had
overlooked
the
common
danger
of
proving
too
much.
If
it
were
necessary
to
produce
a
him-elf:
(Ad
Attic,
iv.
6'.)
Epistolam
Lucceio
nunc
qtiarn
misi,
c.
Italic and Marian civil
vehementius
etiam
quam
fortasse
sends,
et
in
eo
leges
historiae
negligasgratiam-
que
illam,
de
qua
suavissime
quodam
in
prooemio
scripsisti,
a
si
e.,
sobriety
nd
truth.
Suetonius,
ul.
xxv.
In
Pisonem,
xli.
our
highest
magistrates,
nd
enjoy
my
friendly
walk
with
you,
remain.
expense
usually
possess.
The
contemplation
f
their
extra-
The
Osci
were
an
ancient
people
of
Italy,
amous
for
the
scurrilous
and
licen-ious
character
of
their
farces.
a
great
portion
of
it
was
devoted
to
of
their
city
and
people.
of
the
street,
and
forbade
him,
by
his
authority
s
tribune,
to
pro-eed.
But
on
finding
is
interposition
nly
treated
with
silent
contempt,
while,
on
the
news
of
the
approachingempest,
Ctesiphon
and
Euphrates,prepared
A.
u.
c.
700.
was
begun
at
the
marine
villa
near
Cuniw,
may
be
inferred
from
the
letter
to
Quintus,
(Lib.ii.
4.)
constitution
of
succeeding
ges.
the
Lake
Velinus
beginning
of
August.
Ad
Quintum,
iii.
1.
secondly,
or
so
shame-essly
and
repeatedly
perished,
ight
have
Pro
Rabirio
Posthumo,
xii.
allusion.
combat
mounted
on
horseback,
and
blindfold.
Ad
Quintum,
iii.
1.
Ftrt
Britannia
aurum
et
argentum,
et
alia
ruetalla
pretium
victorisc.''
Vita
Agric.
xii.
f
Fasti
Hellenic),
ii.
190.
luxury
becomes
Ad
Quint,
iii.6.
iv.
18.
same
firmness
or
obstinacy
s
their
predecessors
with
the
field,
r
the
iii.
192.
be
nomi-ated
by
two
persons
already
elonging
o
the
body.
some
one.
Ad
Quintum,
iii.
9.
activity
on
Oral,
de
Mr.
al.
Mil.
by
whom
so
considerable
a
portion
extravagance,
since
he
inhabited
a
house
purchased
at
sestertium
centies
et
quadragies
cties,
nearly
fifteen
millions
of
sestertii,
r
120,000/.
of his reviler.
Clodius
was
immediately
arried
into
a
tavern
by
the
road
side,
nd
his
followers,
n-
afforded him
against
others,
was
dragged
forth
into
the
road
and
pierced
with
repeated
ornaments
and
exter-al
coating,
nd
has
no
other
claim
to
the
traveller's
attention
than
its
antiquity.
Classical
Tour,
vol.
i.
p.
436.
of
which
was
so
intense
as
finally
o
drive
the
tribunes
from
the
rostra.
After
was
at
length
defer'
mined
by
the
senate
to
issue
the
final
decree,
that
the
interrex,
n
conjunction
ith
Cneius
Pompey
and
aiding,
ontrary
to
the
or
of
Italy
had
been
agitated
y
the
spirit
f
party,
for
a
sufficient
guard
to
impose
some
degree
of
restraint
upon
the
conduct
of
the
surrounding
crowd.
The
trial
was
now
suffered
to
proceed
without
interruption.
e-
Fasti
Hellenic ,
ii.
192.
judges,
who
had
presidedduring
the
produc-ion
of
the
evidence,
ent
forward
by
the
ordinary
impeachment
of
Milo,
are
taken.
Ides
of
April
(llth).
evocato,
sibi
conjunxit.
veniret,
locum
relinquere
oluit.
Pro
Milone,
xx.
minor
divini-ies,
(whose
solemn
groves
and
altars,
rey
with
the
moss
of
centuries,
Pro
Milone,
xxxii.
since
Saufeius,
although
twice
brought
to
trial
on
different
accounts,
was
on
both
occasions
acquitted.
The
new
law
was
then
directed
against
he
opposite
arty,
island
ii. 2.
Legibus,
i.4.
X
From
his
villa
near
Pompeii,
lie
wrote
the
epistle
o
Atticus,
(v.
1,)
in
which
he
gives
a
curious,
but
by
no
means
agreeable,
ic-
Alps,
on
which
would
be
unscrupulously
roken
the
moment
Ad
Diveisos,
xiii.
1.
Ibid.
bien
qu'il
dans
les
provinces
omaines.
Liv.
xi.
chap.
20.
revenue were
quo
minus
quam
paratissimus
sset)
ui
publico
egotioprsepositua
st.
Quintus
Cicero,
were
at
the
same
time
Ad
Diversos,
xv.
2.
these
titles
arc
yet
to
be
seen
on
ancient
medals
of
Ariobarzanes,
which
are
inscribed
with
the
legend
APIOBAPZANOT2
ET2EBOT2
*IAOpnMAIOT.
senate,
every
means
for
the
preservation
f
his
safety,
e
took
leave
of
me,
and
departed
o
the
town
of
Cybistra.
that
those
acquainted
ith
it
had
signs
f
virtue,
fidelity
nd
regard
towards
you
in
Ariobarzanes
as
to
justify
et their
of
this,however,
that
with
such
an
army
as
mine,
no
such
glorious
xploits,
s
have
been
performed
you
will
understand
from
v.
20.
the
Romans.
great
reputation,
several
other
on
my
tribunal,
he
money
paid
Ad
Attic,
v.
20.
former
station
with
so
much
expedition,
hat,
before
the
morning
began
to
break,
I
was
again
stationed
his
victory
over
Dnrius.
always
conceived
myself
elevated
to
the
highest
oint
of
dignity
hich
it
was
possible
or
me
to
reach.
good
understanding
honours
from
the
senate*
Ad
Diversos,
v,
5.
he
returned
to
Rome,
by
Dolabella,
who
was
on
the
point
of
marrying
Tullia,
the
daughter
of
Cicero,
after
her
separation,robably
by
a
divorce,
rom
her
second
.
epistles
provinces
eems
to
have
varied
with
the
judgment
of
the
respective
overnors.
Z
by
their
extortions.
on
this
point
the
well-known
passages,
Hor.
Sat.
i.
1,
and
Juvenal.
Sat.
v.
20.
animals.
1
believe,
e
writes,
(Ad
Diversos,
iii.
9.)
Attic, vi. 14.
Ad
Attic,,
i.
9,
of
elegant
ind,
and
no
incon-iderable
proficiency
n
literature.
aristocratic
and
more
popular
factions
(the
latter,
ow
ably
guided
by
the
celo-
the
people.
Marcellus
being
thus
compelled
to
dismiss
I
was
in
company
with
Pompey.
Our
conference
lasted
about
two
hours.
He
appeared
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