lt the Basilica Pauli
(Appianus, _Civil Wars_, ii. 26). Basilica is a Greek word ([Greek:
basilike] ); a basilica was used as a court of law, and a place of
business for merchants. The form of a Roman basilica is known from the
description of Vitruvius (v. 1), the ground-plan of two Basilicae at
Rome, and that of Pompeii which is in better preservation. Some of the
great Roman churches are called Basilicae, and in their construction
bear some resemblance to the antient Basilicae. ('Penny Cyclopaedia,'
_Basilica_.)]

[Footnote 338: C. Scribonius Curio. Compare the Life of M. Antonius,
c. 2. He was a man of ability, but extravagant in his habits (Dion
Cassius, 40. c. 60):--

"Momentumque fuit mutatus Curio rerum,
Gallorum captus spoliis et Caesaris auro."--

Lucanus, _Pharsalia_, iv. 819

As to the vote on the proposition of Curio, Appianus (_Civil Wars_,
ii. 30) agrees with Plutarch. Dion Cassius (40. c. 64: and 41. c. 2)
gives a different account of this transaction.]

[Footnote 339: C. Claudius Marcellus and L. Cornelius Lentulus Crus
were consuls for the year B.C. 49, in which the war broke out, This
Marcellus was the cousin of the consul Marcellus of the year B.C. 50,
who (Appianus, _Civil Wars_, ii. 30) presented Pompeius with a sword
when he commissioned him to fight against Caesar. Plutarch appears (c.
58, 59) to mean the same Marcellus; but he has confounded them. The
Marcellus of c. 58 is the consul of B.C. 49; and the Marcellus of c.
59 is the consul of B.C. 50, according to Dion Cassius (40. c. 66 41.
c. 1, &c.) and Appianus.]

[Footnote 340: Cicero returned from his government of Cilicia B.C.
50.]

[Footnote 341: See the Life of Caesar, c. 32.]

[Footnote 342: L. Volcatius Tullus who had been consul B.C. 66
('Consule Tullo'), Horatius (_Od._ iii. 8).]

[Footnote 343: The reply of Pompeius is given by Appianus (_Civil
Wars_, ii. 37). As to the confusion in Rome see Dion Cassius (42. c.
6-9); and the references in Clinton, _Fasti_, B.C. 49.]

[Footnote 344: Plutarch here omits the capture of Corfinium, which
took place before Caesar entered Rome. See Dion Cassius (41. c. 10),
and the Life of Caesar, c. 34.]

[Footnote 345: L. Metullus, of whom little is known. Kaltwasser makes
Caesar say to Metellus, "It was not harder for him to say it than to do
it;" which has no sense in it. What Caesar did say appears from the
Life of Caesar, c. 35. Caesar did not mean to say that it was as easy