with some exquisite
poetry, but also with some ludicrous additions. The Gaul
who is hired to kill Marius, but is frightened by his
eyes, talks bad French mingled with bad English, and
calls on Jesus in his horror!

[54] Brutus, ca. xc.

[55] Florus tells us that there were 2000 Senators and
Knights, but that any one was allowed to kill just whom
he would. "Quis autem illos potest computare quos in
urbe passim quisquis voluit occidit" (lib. iii., ca.
21).

[56] About L487 10_s._ In Smith's Dictionary of Greek and
Roman Antiquities the Attic talent is given as being
worth L243 15_s._ Mommsen quotes the price as 12,000
denarii, which would amount to about the same sum.

[57] Suetonius speaks of his death. Florus mentions the
proscriptions and abdication. Velleius Paterculus is
eloquent in describing the horrors of the massacres and
confiscation. Dio Cassius refers again and again to the
Sullan cruelty. But none of them give a reason for the
abdication of Sulla.

[58] Vol. iii., p. 386. I quote from Mr. Dickson's
translation, as I do not read German.

[59] In defending Roscius Amerinus, while Sulla was
still in power, he speaks of the Sullan massacres as
"pugna Cannensis," a slaughter as foul, as disgraceful,
as bloody as had been the defeat at Cannae.

[60] Mommsen, vol. iii., p. 385.

[61] Pro Sexto Roscio, ca. xxi.: "Quod antea causam
publicam nullam dixerim." He says also in the Brutus,
ca. xc., "Itaque prima causa publica, pro Sex. Roscio
dicta." By "publica causa" he means a criminal
accusation in distinction from a civil action.

[62] Pro Publio Quintio, ca. i.: "Quod mihi consuevit in
ceteris causis esse adjumento, id quoque in hac causa
deficit."

[63] Pro Publio Quintio, ca. xxi.: "Nolo eam rem
commemorando renovare, cujus omnino rei memoriam omnem
tolli funditus ac deleri arbitror oportere."

[64] Pro Roscio, ca. xlix. Cicero says of him that he
would be sure to suppose that anything would have been
done according to law of which he should be told that it
was done by Sulla's order. "Putat homo imperitus morum,
agricola et rusticus, ista omnia, quae vos per Sullam
gesta esse dicitis, more, lege, jure gentium facta."

[65] Pro Sexto Roscio, ca. 1.

[66] Pro Sexto Roscio, ca. xxix.: "Ejusmodi tempus erat,
inq