ogizing for his conduct to Brutus, that he had not
before known that the money belonged to Brutus himself:
"Nunquam enim ex illo audivi illam pecuniam esse suam."

[105] In the letter last quoted, "Flens mihi meam famam
commendasti." "Believe," he says, "that I cling to the
doctrines which you yourself have taught me. They are fixed
in my very heartstrings."

[106] See the former of the two letters, Ad. Att., lib. v.,
21: "Quod enim praetori dare consuessent, quoniam ego non
acceperam, se a me quodam modo dare."

[107] Ad Att., vi., 1: "Tricesimo quoque die talenta Attica
xxxiii., et hoc ex tributis." On every thirteenth day he
gets thirty three talents from the taxes, the talent being
about L243. Of the poverty of Ariobarzanes we have heard
much, and of the number of slaves which reached Rome from
his country. It was thus, probably, that the king paid
Pompey his interest.

Mancipiis locuples eget aeris Cappadonum rex.--Hor. Epis.,
lib. i., vi.

Persius tells us how the Roman slave-dealer was wont to slap
the fat Cappadocian on the thigh to show how sound he was as
he was selling him, Sat. vi., 77. "Cappadocis eques
catastis" is a phrase used by Martial, lib. x., 76, to
describe from how low an origin a Roman knight might
descend, telling us also that there were platforms erected
for the express purpose of selling slaves from Cappadocia.
Juvenal speaks also of "Equites Cappadoces" in the same
strain, Sat. vii., 15. The descendant even of a slave from
Cappadocia might rise to be a knight. From all this we may
learn what was the source of the L8000 a month which Pompey
condescended to take, and which Cicero describes as being
"ex tributis."

[108] Ad Att., lib. vi., 2.

[109] Ad Att., lib. vi., 3.

[110] Ad Div., lib. viii., 11.

[111] Ad Att., lib. vi., 4, 5.

[112] Ad Div., lib. ii., 15: "Scito me sperare ea quae
sequuntur."

[113] Ibid.

[114] Ad Att., lib. vii., 1.

[115] Ad Att., lib. vi., 8.

[116] Ad Att., lib. xi., 1.

[117] Appius and Piso were the last two Censors elected by
the Republic.

[118] Ad Div., lib. ii., 15.

[119] Appian, De Bell. Civ., lib. ii., 26. The historian
tells us that the Consul built a temple with the money, but
that Curio had paid his debts.

[120] Mommsen, book v., ca. ix.

[121] Ad Att., lib. vii., 1: "Video cum altero vinci satius
esse quam cum altero