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o after the conference of Luca was not at all in a position seriously to oppose one of the triumvirs. 11. V. IV. Pompeius Proceeds to Colchis 12. V. III. Attacks on the Senatorial Tribunals, V. III. Renewal of the Censorship 13. The -Ambrani- (Suet. Caes. 9) are probably not the Ambrones named along with the Cimbri (Plutarch, Mar. 19), but a slip of the pen for -Arverni-. 14. This cannot well be expressed more naively than is done in the memorial ascribed to his brother (de pet. cons. i, 5; 13, 51, 53; in 690); the brother himself would hardly have expressed his mind publicly with so much frankness. In proof of this unprejudiced persons will read not without interest the second oration against Rullus, where the "first democratic consul," gulling the friendly public in a very delectable fashion, unfolds to it the "true democracy." 15. His epitaph still extant runs: -Cn. Calpurnius Cn. f. Piso quaestor fro pr. ex s. c. proviniciam Hispaniam citeriorem optinuit-. 16. V. V. Failure of the First Plans of Conspiracy 17. V. III. Continued Subsistence of the Sullan Constitution 18. IV. XII. Priestly Colleges 19. IV. VII. Economic Crisis 20. V. V. Rehabilitation of Saturninus and Marius 21. Such an apology is the -Catilina- of Sallust, which was published by the author, a notorious Caesarian, after the year 708, either under the monarchy of Caesar or more probably under the triumvirate of his heirs; evidently as a treatise with a political drift, which endeavours to bring into credit the democratic party-- on which in fact the Roman monarchy was based--and to clear Caesar's memory from the blackest stain that rested on it; and with the collateral object of whitewashing as far as possible the uncle of the triumvir Marcus Antonius (comp. e. g. c. 59 with Dio, xxxvii. 39). The Jugurtha of the same author is in an exactly similar way designed partly to expose the pitifulness of the oligarchic government, partly to glorify the Coryphaeus of the democracy, Gaius Marius. The circumstance that the adroit author keeps the apologetic and inculpatory character of these writings of his in the background, proves, not that they are not partisan treatises, but that they are good ones. 22. V. XII. Greek Literati in Rome Notes for Chapter VI 1. V. IV. Aggregate Results 2. The impression of the first address, which Pompeius made to the burgesses after his return, is thus described by Cicer
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