11
See vol. i., p. 190.
12
13
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15
Ever since its capture in the second Punic War, Capua had ceased to have any corporate existence, and its territory had been
16
17
Quoted by Flavius Charisius,
18
Vol. ii., p. 204.
19
Vol. i., p. 357.
20
CLXXVIII-CLXXXI. The date of the letter to P. Sittius (CLXXVIII) is not certain.
21
Vol. i., p. 366.
22
Letter DXXXIII (
23
Vol. i., p. 226; Pliny,
24
Pomponia, married to Cicero's younger brother Quintus. We shall frequently hear of this unfortunate marriage. Quintus was four years younger than his brother, who had apparently arranged the match, and felt therefore perhaps somewhat responsible for the result (Nep.
25
Atticus had estates and a villa near Buthrotum in Epirus,—
26
This is probably Sext. Peducæus the younger, an intimate friend of Atticus (Nep.
27
The person alluded to is L. Lucceius, of whom we shall hear again. See Letters V, VII, VIII, CVIII. What his quarrel with Atticus was about, we do not know.
28
Prescriptive right to property was acquired by possession (
29
C. Rabirius, whom Cicero defended in b.c. 63, when prosecuted by Cæsar for his share in the murder of Saturninus (b.c. 100). He lived, we know, in Campania, for his neighbours came to give evidence in his favour at the trial.
30
M. Fonteius made a fortune in the province of Gaul beyond the Alps, of which he was proprætor, b.c. 77-74. In b.c. 69 he had been accused of malversation, and defended by Cicero. After his acquittal he seems to be buying a seaside residence in Campania, as so many of the men of fashion did.
31
Cicero's "gymnasium" was some arrangement of buildings and plantations more or less on the model of the Greek gymnasia, at his Tusculan villa.
32
The mother of Atticus lived to be ninety, dying in b.c. 33, not long before Atticus himself, who at her funeral declared that "he had never been reconciled to her, for he had never had a word of dispute with her" (Nep.
33
This sum (about £163) is for the works of art purchased for the writer by Atticus.
34
Thyillus (sometimes written Chilius), a Greek poet living at Rome. See Letters XVI and XXI. The Eumolpidæ were a family of priests at Athens who had charge of the temple of Demeter at Eleusis. The πάτρια Εὐμολπιδῶν (the phrase used by Cicero here) may be either books of ritual or records such as priests usually kept: πάτρια is an appropriate word for such rituals or records handed down by priests of one race or family.
35
Lucceius, as in the first letter and the next.
36
The
37
The first allusion in these letters to the disturbed position of public affairs. See the passage of Dio quoted in the previous note. There were so many riots in the interval between the proclamation and the holding of the elections, not without bloodshed, that the senate voted the consuls a guard.
38
The point of this frigid joke is not clear. Was the grandmother really dead? What was she to do with the Latin
39
Cneius Sallustius, a learned friend of Cicero's, of whom we shall often hear again.
40
C. Calpurnius Piso, quæstor b.c. 58, died in b.c. 57. The marriage took place in b.c. 63.
41
The annalist C. Licinius Macer was impeached
42
The books must have been a very valuable collection, or Cicero would hardly have made so much of being able to buy them, considering his lavish orders for statues or antiques.
43
One of the judices rejected by Verres on his trial, a pontifex and augur.
44
Agent of Atticus.
45
C. Antonius (uncle of M. Antonius) was elected with Cicero. Q. Cornificius had been tr. pl. in b.c. 69. See Letter XVIII.
46
M. Cæsonius, Cicero's colleague in the ædileship. He had lost credit as one of the
47
Aufidius Lurco, tr. pl. b.c. 61. M. Lollius Palicanus, tr. pl. some years previously.
48
L. Iulius Cæsar, actually consul in b.c. 64, brother-in-law of Lentulus the