t
Plutarch's statement can be strongly supported.]

[Footnote 8: Caesar said, [Greek: ou men kai prosekein epi tois
parelelythosi toiouton tina nomon sungraphesthai] (Dio, xxxviii. 17).]

[Footnote 9: "The man who did not so much as raise me up, when I threw
myself at his feet."--_Att._ x. 4 (vol. ii., p. 362). Similar allusions
to Pompey's conduct to him on the occasion often occur.]

[Footnote 10: See vol. i., p. 190.]

[Footnote 11: See vol. i., pp. 129, 138; cp. _pro Planc._ Sec.Sec. 95-96.]

[Footnote 12: _Fam._ i. 9, 15 (vol. i., p. 316).]

[Footnote 13: Letter CVII, vol. i., pp. 219, 220.]

[Footnote 14: Ever since its capture in the second Punic War, Capua had
ceased to have any corporate existence, and its territory had been _ager
publicus_, let out to tenants (_aratores_). Caesar had restored its
corporate existence by making it a _colonia_, and much of the land had
been allotted to veterans of his own and Pompey's armies. The state thus
lost the rent of the land, one of the few sources of revenue from Italy
now drawn by the exchequer of Rome.]

[Footnote 15: Letter CLII, vol. i., pp. 310-324.]

[Footnote 16: Quoted by Flavius Charisius, _Ars Gramm._ i., p. 126 (ed.
Kiel).]

[Footnote 17: Vol. ii., p. 204.]

[Footnote 18: Vol. i., p. 357.]

[Footnote 19: CLXXVIII-CLXXXI. The date of the letter to P. Sittius
(CLXXVIII) is not certain.]

[Footnote 20: Vol. i., p. 366.]

[Footnote 21: Letter DXXXIII (_Fam._ iv. 14), about October, B.C. 46.]

[Footnote 22: Vol. i., p. 226; Pliny, _Ep._, vii. 33.]

"TULLIUS, of all the sons of royal Rome
That are, or have been, or are yet to come,
Most skilled to plead, most learned in debate,--
Catullus hails thee, small as thou art great.
Take thou from him his thanks, his fond regards,
The first of patrons from the least of bards."

CATULLUS, xlix. (J. E. S.)

CICERO'S LETTERS

ERRATA IN VOL. I.

Page 107, note 3, last line, _dele_ note of interrogation after "expenses."
" 193, note 4, last line, _for_ B.C. 45 _lege_ B.C. 46.
" 253, Letter CXXII, _for_ A IV, 1, _lege_ A IV, 2.

CICERO'S LETTERS

I (A I, 5)

[Sidenote: B.C. 68. Coss., L. Caecilius Metellus, Q. Marcius Rex.]

This opening of the correspondence finds Cicero, now in his
thirty-ninth year, in the midst of his official career. He had
already been quaestor (B.C. 75) and aedile (B.C. 69), and was looking
forwar