ning in Rome, opened his theatre." But Plutarch, no
doubt, was wrong.

[30] We may imagine what was the standing of the family from
the address which Horace made to certain members of it in
the time of Augustus. "Credite Pisones," De Arte Poetica.
The Pisones so addressed were the grandsons of Cicero's
victim.

[31] Quin., ix., 4: "Pro dii immortales, quis hic illuxit
dies!" The critic quotes it as being vicious in sound, and
running into metre, which was considered a great fault in
Roman prose, as it is also in English. Our ears, however,
are hardly fine enough to catch the iambic twang of which
Quintilian complains.

[32] Ca. xviii., xx., xxii.

[33] "Quae potest homini esse polito delectatio," Ad Div.,
vii., 1. These words have in subsequent years been employed
as an argument against all out-of-door sports, with
disregard of the fact that they were used by Cicero as to an
amusement in which the spectators were merely looking on,
taking no active part in deeds either of danger or of
skill.--_Fortnightly Review_, October, 1869, The Morality of
Field Sports.

[34] Ad Att., lib. iv., 16.

[35] Ad Div., ii., 8.

[36] See the letter, Ad Quin. Frat., lib. iii., 2: "Homo
undique actus, et quam a me maxime vulneraretur, non tulit,
et me trementi voce exulem appellavit." The whole scene is
described.

[37] Ad Fam., v., 8.

[38] Ad Quin. Frat., ii., 12.

[39] Ad Att., iv., 15.

[40] Val. Max., lib. iv., ca. ii., 4.

[41] Horace, Sat., lib. ii., 1:

HOR. "Trebati,
Quid faciam praescribe."--TREB. "Quiescas."--HOR.
"Ne faciam, inquis, Omnino versus?"--TREB. "Aio."--HOR.
"Peream male si non Optimum erat."

Trebatius became a noted jurisconsult in the time of
Augustus, and wrote treatises.

[42] Ca. iv.: "Male judicavit populus. At judicavit. Non
debuit, at potuit."

[43] Ca. vi.: "Servare necesse est gradus. Cedat consulari
generi praetorium, nec contendat cum praetorio equester
locus."

[44] Ca. xix.

[45] Ad Fam., i., 9.

[46] Ca. xi.

[47] Ad Fam., lib. ii., 6: "Dux nobis et auctor opus est et
eorum ventorum quos proposui moderator quidem et quasi
gubernator."

[48] Mommsen, book v., chap. viii. According to the
historian, Clodius was the Achilles, and Milo the Hector. In
this quarrel Hector killed Achilles.

[49] Ad Att., lib. iv., 16.

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