tempus aptatos libertus Tiro contraxit."

[166] Horace, Epis., lib. i., 1: "Nullus in orbe sinus Baiis
praelucet amaenis."

[167] Ad Att., lib. xiii., 52.

[168] Ad Div., lib. vii., 30.

[169] Mommsen, book v., xi.

[170] He left Brundisium on the last day of the year.

[171] Shakspeare, Julius Caesar, act i., sc. 2.

[172] Ad Att., lib. xiv., 9, 15.

[173] Quintilian, lib. vii., 4.

[174] These words will be found in M. Du Rozoir's summary to
the Philippics.

[175] Ad Att., lib. xiv., 1.

[176] Ibid., 14: "Quam oculis cepi justo interitu tyranni."

[177] Morabin, liv. vi., chap. iii., sec. 6.

[178] Velleius Paterculus, lib. ii., ca. lviii.

[179] Mommsen, book v., xi.

[180] Ad Att., lib. xiv., 4.

[181] Ibid., lib. xiv., 6.

[182] Ibid., lib. xiv., 7.

[183] Ad Att., lib. xiv., 9.

[184] Ibid., lib. xiv., 11.

[185] Ad Att., lib. xiv., 13.

[186] Ad Div., lib. xvi., 23.

[187] Ad Div., lib. ix., 11.

[188] Ad Att., lib. xiv., 21.

[189] Ad Att., lib. xv., 21.

[190] Ibid., lib. xv., 26.

[191] Ad Att., lib. xv., 27.

[192] Ibid., lib. xvi., 1.

[193] Ibid., lib. xvi., 5.

[194] Ibid., lib. xvi., 2.

[195] Ad Att., lib. xvi., 7.

[196] Phil., i., 5: "Nimis iracunde hoc quidem, et valde
intemperanter." "Who," he goes on to say, "has sinned so
heavily against the Republic that here, in the Senate, they
shall dare to threaten his house by sending the State
workmen?"

[197] Brutus, Ciceroni, lib. ii., 5: "Jam concedo ut vel
Philippici vocentur quod tu quadam epistola jocans
scripsisti." I fear, however, that we must acknowledge that
this letter cannot be taken as an authority for the early
use of the name.

[198] Phil., i., ca. vii.

[199] Ibid., i., ca. viii.

[200] Ibid., i., ca. x.

[201] The year of his birth is uncertain. He had been Consul
three years back, and must have spoken often.

[202] Ad Div., lib. xii., 2.

[203] It may here be worth our while to quote the
impassioned language which Velleius Paterculus uses when he
chronicles the death of Cicero, lib. ii., 66: "Nihil tamen
egisti, M. Antoni (cogit enim excedere propositi formam
operis, erumpens animo ac pectore indignatio), nihil,
inquam, egisti, mercedem caelestissimi oris et clarissimi
capitis abscissi numerando, auctoramentoque funebri ad
conservatoris quondam reipublicae tantique consu