a, and may thus be taken as evidence
outside his own, though addressed to himself.

[71] The Roman Triumvirate, p. 107.

[72] Caesar, a Sketch, pp. 170, 341.

[73] Professor Mommsen says no word of Cicero's government
in Cilicia.

[74] I cannot but refer to Mommsen's account of this
transaction, book v., chap. viii.: "Golden fetters were also
laid upon him," Cicero. "Amid the serious embarrassments of
his finances the loans of Caesar free of interest * * * were in
a high degree welcome to him; and many an immortal oration
for the Senate was nipped in the bud by the thought that the
agent of Caesar might present a bill to him after the close
of the sitting." There are many assertions here for which I
have looked in vain for the authority. I do not know that
Cicero's finances were seriously embarrassed at the time.
The evidence goes rather to show that they were not so. Had
he ever taken more than one loan from Caesar? I find nothing
as to any question of interest; but I imagine that Caesar
treated Cicero as Cicero afterward treated Pompey when he
lent him money. We do not know whether even Crassus charged
Caesar interest. We may presume that a loan is always made
welcome, or the money would not be borrowed, but the "high
degree of welcome," as applied to this especial loan, ought
to have some special justification. As to Cicero's anxiety
in borrowing the money I know nothing, but he was very
anxious to pay it. The borrowing and the lending of money
between Roman noblemen was very common. No one had ever
borrowed so freely as Caesar had done. Cicero was a lender
and a borrower, but I think that he was never seriously
embarrassed. What oration was nipped in the bud by fear of
his creditor? He had lately spoken twice for Saufeius, once
against S. Clodius, and against Plancus--in each case
opposing the view of Caesar, as far as Caesar had views on the
matter. The sum borrowed on this occasion was 800,000
sesterces--between L6000 and L7000. A small additional sum
of L100 is mentioned in one of the letters to Atticus, lib.
v., 5., which is, however, spoken of by Cicero as forming
one whole with the other. I can hardly think that Mommsen
had this in view when he spoke of loans in the plural
number.

[75] M. C. Marcellus was Consul B.C. 51; his brother, C.
Claudius Marcellus, was Consul B.C. 50, another C. Claudius
Marcellus, a cousi