called on the
speakers as he thought fit.

[210] Caesar, according to Sallust, had referred to the
Lex Porcia. Cicero alludes, and makes Caesar allude, to
the Lex Sempronia. The Porcian law, as we are told by
Livy, was passed B.C. 299, and forbade that a Roman
should be scourged or put to death. The Lex Sempronia
was introduced by C. Gracchus, and enacted that the life
of a citizen should not be taken without the voice of
the citizens.

[211] Velleius Paterculus, xxxvi.: "Consulatui Ciceronis
non mediocre adjecit decus natus eo anno Divus
Augustus."

[212] In Pisonem, iii.: "Sine ulla dubitatione juravi
rempublicam atque hanc urbem mea unius opera esse
salvam."

[213] Dio Cassius tells the same story, lib. xxxvii.,
ca. 38, but he adds that Cicero was more hated than ever
because of the oath he took: [Greek: kai ho men kai ek
toutou poly mallon emisethe.]

[214] It is the only letter given in the collection as
having been addressed direct to Pompey. In two letters
written some years later to Atticus, B.C. 49, lib.
viii., 11, and lib. viii., 12, he sends copies of a
correspondence between himself and Pompey and two of the
Pompeian generals.

[215] Lib. v., 7. It is hardly necessary to explain that
the younger Scipio and Laelius were as famous for their
friendship as Pylades and Orestes. The "Virtus Scipiadae
et mitis sapientia Laeli" have been made famous to us
all by Horace.

[216] These two brothers, neither of whom was remarkable
for great qualities, though they were both to be
Consuls, were the last known of the great family of the
Metelli, a branch of the "Gens Caecilia." Among them had
been many who had achieved great names for themselves in
Roman history, on account of the territories added to
the springing Roman Empire by their victories. There had
been a Macedonicus, a Numidicus, a Balearicus, and a
Creticus. It is of the first that Velleius Paterculus
sings the glory--lib. i., ca. xi., and the elder Pliny
repeats the story, Hist. Nat., vii., 44--that of his
having been carried to the grave by four sons, of whom
at the time of his death three had been Consuls, one had
been a Praetor, two had enjoyed triumphal honors, and
one had been Censor. In looking through the consular
list of Cicero's lifetime, I find that ther