lis irritando
necem. Rapuisti tu M. Ciceroni lucem solicitam, et aetatem
senilem, et vitam miseriorem, te principe, quam sub te
triumviro mortem. Famam vero gloriamque factorum atque
dictorum adeo non abstulisti, ut auxeris. Vivit, vivetque
per omnium saeculorum memoriam; dumque hoc vel forte, vel
providentia, vel utcumque constitutum, rerum naturae corpus,
quod ille paene solus Romanorum animo vidit, ingenio
complexus est, eloquentia illuminavit, manebit incolume,
comitem aevi sui laudem Ciceronis trahet, omnisque posteritas
illius in te scripta mirabitur, tuum in eum factum
execrabitur; citiusque in mundo genus hominum, quam ea,
cadet." This was the popular idea of Cicero in the time of
Tiberius.

[204] Ad Div., lib. xii., 23.

[205] Ad Att., lib. xvi., 11.

[206] On referring to the Milo, ca. xv., the reader will see
the very different tone in which Cicero spoke of this
incident when Antony was in favor with him.

[207] It was a sign of an excellent character in Rome to
have been chosen often as heir in part to a man's property.

[208] Horace, Odes, lib. iii., 30.

[209] Ad Att., lib. xvi., 14.

[210] Philippics, lib. vi., 1.

[211] "Populum Romanum servire fas non est, quem dii
immortales omnibus gentibus imperare voluerunt."

[212] Ad Div., lib. xi., 8.

[213] Ad Div., lib. x., 3.

[214] Ad Brutum, lib. ii., 6.

[215] Appian. De Bell. Civ., lib. iii., ca. 26.

[216] Vell. Pat., lib. ii., 62: "Quae omnia senatus decretis
comprensa et comprobata sunt."

[217] Ad Div., lib. xii., 7. This is in a letter to Cassius,
in which he says, "Promisi enim et prope confirmavi, te non
expectasse nec expectaturum decreta nostra, sed te ipsum tuo
more rempublicam defensurum."

[218] Appian, lib. iii., ca. 50. The historian of the civil
wars declares that Piso spoke up for Antony, saying that he
should not be damnified by loose statements, but should be
openly accused. Feelings ran very high, but Cicero seems to
have held his own.

[219] Ad Div., lib. x., 27.

[220] Suetonius, Augustus, lib. xi.

[221] Tacitus, Ann., lib. i., x.: "Caesis Hirtio et Pansa,
sive hostis illos, seu Pansam venenum vulneri affusum, sui
milites Hirtium et, machinator doli, Caesar abstulerat."

[222] Philip., xiv., 3: "Omnibus, quanquam ruit ipse suis
cladibus, pestem, vastitatem, cruciatum, tormenta
denuntiat."

[223] Philip., xi