mple, Fufidius, an ‘eques Romanus ornatissimus’, left money to Cicero( Ad Att . 11, 14, 3). On the activities of this man in Mac

Frequent complaints of Cicero about the ‘piscinarii’ in 60 B.C., e.g. Ad Att . 1, 18, 6: ‘ceteros iam nosti; qui ita sunt stult

Q. Marcius Rex (Dio 36, 17, 2). He hoped to inherit from Rex (Cicero, Ad Att . 1, 16, 10). 5 Asconius 17 = p. 19 Clark: ‘ea p

3, 83, 1): he is described as designate to the consulship from birth ( Ad Att . 4, 8 b, 2), already in 70 B.C. princeps iuventut

cicero’s own candidature’ ‘in quo uno maxime nititur ambitio nostra’ ( Ad Att . 1, 1, 4). On his huge estates and armies of colo

nobilis elabora ut habeas vel ut teneas, studiosos quos habes. ’ Cf. Ad Att . 1, 1, 4 (Ahenobarbus). PageBook=>025 to f

tesPage=>026 1 This was notorious. Cicero could not deny it, cf. Ad Att . 12, 21, 1. 2 Sallust, BC 52, 21 f. : ‘sed alia

to stand for the consulate in 67 (Val. Max. 3, 8, 3) and again in 65 ( Ad Att . 1, 1, 1). Note also Pompeius’ legate L. Lollius

, 349 ff. 2 That it need not have been a serious matter is shown by Ad Att . 1, 13, 3: ‘nosmet ipsi, qui Lycurgei a principio

ipsi, qui Lycurgei a principio fuissemus, cotidie demitigamur. ’ 3 Ad Att . 1, 14, 1: ‘non iucunda miseris, inanis improbis,

issimo, M. Pisoni. ’ 6 Dio 37, 49, 1. 7 His consulate a disgrace, Ad Att . 1, 18, 5; 19, 4; 20, 5. His talent as a dancer,

, and Pompeius’ tribune Flavius imprisoned the consul Metellus Celer ( Ad Att . 2, 1, 8). PageBook=>034 an ambitious bill

othed to Servilia’s son, Cato’s nephew. 7 But NotesPage=>034 1 Ad Att . 1, 19, 4. 2 Plutarch, Cicero 29. 3 Ad Att. 1

NotesPage=>034 1 Ad Att. 1, 19, 4. 2 Plutarch, Cicero 29. 3 Ad Att . 1, 16, 8. 4 Ib. 1, 18, 6: ‘Pompeius togulam il

’ 6 Afranius was perhaps proconsul of Gallia Cisalpina in 59 B.C. ( Ad Att . 1, 19, 2; In Pisonem 58, cf. M. Gelzer, Hermes L

Crassus, a combination in no way anomalous. 3 NotesPage=>036 1 Ad Att . 2, 16, 2: ‘quid? hoc quern ad modum obtinebis? o

=>037 1 Note the extravagant proposal of the tribune C. Messius, Ad Att . 4, 1, 7. 2 Pro Sestio 136 ff. 3 Cf. especial

cons.: the latter is probably not the παλινῳδία to which he refers in Ad Att . 4, 5, 1. PageBook=>038 The basis of power

ounced a proposal that NotesPage=>038 1 Below, p. 45. (??) 1 Ad Att . 4, 15, 7, &c. PageBook=>039 he be mad

icero, Brutus 212 f.; his ignorance about a detail of family history, Ad Att . 6, 1, 17. His morals (Val. Max. 9, 1, 8) and his

f Comum had been premature and by no means to the liking of Pompeius ( Ad Att . 5, 11, 2). 3 Ad fam. 8, 4, 4: ‘omnis oportere

us, cos. des. for 49, a man loaded with debts, avid and openly venal ( Ad Att . 11, 6, 6; Caesar, BC 1, 4, 2). 2 For the full

i mitterent significan. tenuis atque infirmi haec animi videri. ’ 5 Ad Att . 7, 8, 4: ‘Vehementer hominem contemnebat et suis

especial tie of loyalty to L. Cornelius Lentulus Crus (cos. 49), cf. Ad Att . 9, 7b, 2; 8, 15a, 2. This is evidence for the or

111, 2762; IV A, 853 f.). Rufus actually sent his son to join Caesar, Ad Att . 9, 18, 2. The laudatory epithets here attached b

ilies, above, p. 44, n. 1. Spinther’s son married a Caecilia Metella ( Ad Att . 13, 7, 1). 3 Brutus’ marriage to a daughter of

8, 3; 3, 91, 2; BG 8, 52, 4; Suetonius, Divus Iulius 33; 72; Cicero, Ad Att . 7, 11, 1: ‘atque haec ait omnia facere se dignit

vous burden of revenge and recrimination. The NotesPage=>049 1 Ad Att . 7, 15, 2: ‘Cato enim ipse iam servire quam pugna

curb the People’s rights, as Sulla had done. NotesPage=>051 1 Ad Att . 8, 11, 2: ‘dominatio quaesita ab utroque est’; i

nsultaturum omnium capitibus. ’ For awareness of his unpopularity cf. Ad Att . 14, 1, 2 (Caesar’s words): ‘ego dubitem quin sum

ic est. tamen non dubito quin me male oderit. ’ 2 Matius, quoted in Ad Att . 14, 1, 1: ‘etenim si ille tali ingenio exitum no

srepresentation to his contemporaries (Cicero, Pro Murena 61 ff.; cf. Ad Att . 2, 1, 8: ‘dicit enim tamquam in Platonis πολιτ∊ί

bserved, ‘magni refert hic quid velit, sed quicquid vult valde vult’ ( Ad Att . 14, 1, 2); Quintilian (10, 1, 123), on the orato

iunxerat Caesari. ’ Compare also, in his letter to Oppius and Balbus ( Ad Att . 9, 7 c, 2), the reference ‘iis qui et illi et mi

Optimates Ahenobarbus and Ap. Pulcher, had arranged one transaction ( Ad Att . 4, 15, 7). 3 On these men, C. Marcellus (cos.

sius Hortalus (Catullus 65, 2), the son of the orator, joined Caesar ( Ad Att . 10, 4, 6). It will hardly be necessary to quote

audius Marcellus Aeserninus (Bell. Al. 57, 4). Also young Hortensius ( Ad Att . 10, 4, 6) and Lucius and Quintus, brother and co

(1926), 29 ff. Of former Pompeian tribunes, L. Flavius joined Caesar ( Ad Att . 10, 1, 2) and so did C. Messius (Bell. Afr. 33,

NotesPage=>068 1 On Labienus’ desertion, Dio 41, 4, 4; Cicero, Ad Att . 7, 12, 5, &c. He was solicited in 50 B.C., B

ied in his consulate (45 B.C.). 2 Cicero would have preferred Nero ( Ad Att . 6, 6, 1). On his service under Caesar Bell. Al.

sent? ’ 5 BC 3, 91, 2. 6 For example, BC 3, 53, 4 f., cf. Cicero, Ad Att . 14, 10, 2 (Scaeva as a type). PageBook=>071

, 1 and 23, 5; 6, 41, 2; 8, 23, 4 and 48, 1; BC 3, 60, 4. 2 Cicero, Ad Att . 7, 7, 6; Catullus 29, 1 ff., &c, cf. P-W XIV

eius was unable to move either the propertied NotesPage=>072 1 Ad Att . 8, 15a; 9, 7a and b, &c. 2 Pro Balbo, pass

f 60 B.C. In December of that year he sought to bring Cicero into it, Ad Att . 2, 3, 3. 4 Cicero, Pro Balbo 58: ‘nam huic qui

adherents, Caesar easily won Rome and Italy. NotesPage=>073 1 Ad Att . 7, 7, 5 (Dec. 50): ‘an publicanos qui numquam fi

b regno sint qui id numquam, dum modo otiosi essent, recusarunt’; cf. Ad Att . 8, 13, 2; 16, 1. 2 Ib. 9, 11, 4; Ad. fam. 7, 3

cf. Ad Att. 8, 13, 2; 16, 1. 2 Ib. 9, 11, 4; Ad. fam. 7, 3, 2. 3 Ad Att . 8, 11, 2; 9, 10, 2 and 6; 11, 6, 2. 4 Dessau (

rnal uncle, the alleged slayer of Saturninus, and a man of substance ( Ad Att . 1, 6, 1). 5 Cicero, Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 3:

e confidential secretary of Caesar. 6 Another NotesPage=>074 1 Ad Att . 8, 11, 2; 9, 10, 3; 11, 6, 2. In 48 B.C. he was

ff. As for Theophanes, Cicero speaks of his auctoritas with Pompeius ( Ad Att . 5, 11, 3); cf. also Caesar, BC 3, 18, 3 (Libo, L

ose, transient in effect. This was permanent. NotesPage=>077 1 Ad Att . 14, 21, 3; Ad fam. 15, 19, 3; De off. 2, 29. 2

=>077 1 Ad Att. 14, 21, 3; Ad fam. 15, 19, 3; De off. 2, 29. 2 Ad Att . 12, 2, 2: ‘at Balbus aedificat. τί γἀ⍴ αùτῷ µέλ∊

, cf. H. Hill, CQ XXVI (1932), 170 ff. 2 In general, a ‘colluvies’ ( Ad Att . 9, 10, 7), a vὲĸuια (ib. 9, 18, 2). The principa

man NotesPage=>079 1 C. Fuficius Fango (Dio 48, 22, 3; Cicero, Ad Att . 14, 10, 2). A man of this name was a municipal m

d consul c. 105–100 (ib. 175), L. Turius likewise in 65 (ib. 237, cf. Ad Att . 1, 1, 2) and T. Aufidius, once a publicanus, but

o be governor of Asia (Val. Max. 6, 9, 7; Cicero, Pro Flacco 45). 2 Ad Att . 10, 8, 3 3 M. Cispius, tribune in 57, ‘vir opt

rae- stantissimus et ornatissimus’ (In Pisonem 64), was aedile in 45 ( Ad Att . 13, 45, 1). He had business interests in Africa

, 29) and probably large estates there the later saltus Lamianus? 2 Ad Att . 9, 2a, 3: ‘Postumus Curtius venit nihil nisi cla

lasses loquens et exercitus. ’ Rabirius even hoped for the consulate ( Ad Att . 12, 49, 2). For his service in taking troops to

quam refugere solerent, esset excisa. ’ 5 Cicero, Pro Caecina 102; Ad Att . 1, 19, 4, &c. Volaterrae held out till 80 B.

>097 1 At least according to Nicolaus, Vita Caesaris 27, 106 2 Ad Att . 15, 1a, 2: ‘scripsissem ardentius. ’ 3 Compare

ian party were securely in power. The earliest contemporary evidence ( Ad Att . 14, 10, 1, April 19th) does not definitely incri

tor. The consuls designate for the next year, NotesPage=>099 1 Ad Att . 14, 10, 1 2 lb. 14, 21, 3: ‘animo virili, cons

irili, consilio puerili. ’ 3 Ib. 14, 10, 1; 15, 11, 2. 4 Cf. esp. Ad Att . 15, 11, 2. Cicero, speaking in the presence of B

the test. NotesPage=>101 1 Appian, BC 2, 140, 581; 3, 2, 5 2 Ad Att . 14, 6, 2; 20, 4 3 Phil. 10, 7. 4 Phil. 2, 5:

and Tillius Cimber. 6 After the assassination NotesPage=>102 1 Ad Att . 14, 20, 4: ‘prorsus ibat res; nunc autem videmur

The sagacious Atticus became impatient of the praising of Dolabella, Ad Att . 14, 19, 5. 2 Cassius urged Cicero to get at Hi

bella, Ad Att. 14, 19, 5. 2 Cassius urged Cicero to get at Hirtius, Ad Att . 15, 5, 1. 3 Ad Att. 15, 1, 3: ‘non minus se no

5. 2 Cassius urged Cicero to get at Hirtius, Ad Att. 15, 5, 1. 3 Ad Att . 15, 1, 3: ‘non minus se nostrorum arma timere qu

uam Antoni. ’ A little later Hirtius sent a warning letter to Cicero, Ad Att . 15, 6, 2 f. 4 Ad fam. 11, 2 (an open letter of

nd the Ides of March a great comfort; and the NotesPage=>106 1 Ad Att . 14, 6, 1 (April 12th): ‘Antoni colloquium cum he

; 2, 5. 3 This is strongly emphasized by Gelzer, P-W x, 1003 f. 4 Ad Att . 14, 1, x, cf. 14, 2, 3: ‘habes igitur ϕαλἀĸ⍴ωµα

cquisitions ’pacis isti scilicet amatores et non latrocini auctores’ ( Ad Att . 14, 10, 2). PageBook=>107 Roman State had

ng partisans to the Senate in an orderly fashion. 2 As emerges from Ad Att . 14, 9, 3 (April 18th). 3 Below, p. 130. Page

seemed harmless:5 before long, he was seen to NotesPage=>108 1 Ad Att . 14, 13a and 13b, Antonius’ letter and Cicero’s r

Africa, three legions each. 3 Q. Hortensius, NotesPage=>110 1 Ad Att . 14, 14, 4 2 For details about all the province

Antistius Vetus was still apparently in charge at the end of 45 B.C. ( Ad Att . 14, 9, 3), L. Staius Murcus being sent out as pr

he entered Rome, a halo was seen to encircle NotesPage=>114 1 Ad Att . 14, 10, 3; 11, 2. 2 Ib. 14, 10, 3. 3 Ib. 14,

BC 3, 14, 48 ff.). This was a mere formality. 2 Ad fam. 11, 2. 3 Ad Att . 15, 8, 1. But Hirtius was by no means favourable

ecidius Saxa and Cafo, Phil. 8, 26, cf. J RS XXVII (1937), 135 f. 2 Ad Att . 15, 11 (June 8th). The wives of Brutus and Cassi

cf. Rice Holmes, The Architect of the Roman Empire 1 (1928), 191, on Ad Att . 15, 3, 2 (May 22nd). PageBook=>117 Antoni

be able to return to Roman political life. 4 NotesPage=>117 1 Ad Att . 15, 2, 3, below, p. 131. 2 Pliny, NH 2, 94 (de

, et si verum fatemur, salutare id terris fuit. ’ 3 Phil. 1, 8, cf. Ad Att . 16, 7, 1. 4 So Cicero was informed at Leucopet

as informed at Leucopetra, near Rhegium, on or soon after August 6th, Ad Att . 16, 7, 1 (August 19th): ‘haec adferebant, edictu

actum et probant. ’ 2 As Appian justly observes, BC 3, 39, 158. 3 Ad Att . 15, 13, 4 (Oct. 25th). The informant was Servili

treason. NotesPage=>125 1 Nicolaus, Vita Caesaris 31, 131 ff.; Ad Att . 16, 8, 1 f.; 11, 6. 2 Ad Att 16, 8, 2. 3 Ib.

Nicolaus, Vita Caesaris 31, 131 ff.; Ad Att. 16, 8, 1 f.; 11, 6. 2 Ad Att 16, 8, 2. 3 Ib. 16, 15, 3. 4 Appian, BC 3, 42

man and a ‘piscinarius’ (Macrobius 3, 15, 6; Varro, RR 3, 3, 10). 2 Ad Att . 14, 12, 2 (April 22nd): Octavius, quem quidem su

ettere della r. Univ. di Cagliari (1933), 1 ff. 3 Nicolaus, ib. 4 Ad Att . 14, 21, 2: ‘et nosti virum quam tectus. ’ 5 As

. ’ 5 As cos. stiff, at the end of 40 B.C. The last mention of him, Ad Att . 16, 11, 8 (Nov. 5th). 6 Ad Att. 15, 2, 3. 7

of 40 B.C. The last mention of him, Ad Att. 16, 11, 8 (Nov. 5th). 6 Ad Att . 15, 2, 3. 7 Ib. 16, 15, 3. 8 Ib. 16, 8, 2. P

e had married the daughter NotesPage=>133 1 Below, p. 235. 2 Ad Att . 16, 1, 4: ‘λῆρος πολύς in vino et in somno istor

itus novi libidinum et languoris effeminatis-simi animi plenos. ’ 3 Ad Att . 14, 20, 4: ‘ille optime loquitur, sed vivit habi

ιος, Λ∈ύκιος, πάντων δὲ μάλιστα Kικἐρων. 3 Plutarch, Cicero 44. 4 Ad Att . 16, 14, 2. 5 Ad fam. 12, 2, 2. He hoped to squ

s Cotta (cos. 65 B.C.) lived in a ‘villula sordida et valde pusilla’ ( Ad Att . 12, 27, 1). In contrast, the mansions of Cicero.

1, 3, 6; Plutarch, Pompeius 58, and Caesar 37; Dio 41, 16, 4; Cicero, Ad Att . 7, 13, 1; Ad fam. 14, 14, 2. 2 Münzer, RA, 355

ries and friends he induced Cicero to compose NotesPage=>138 1 Ad Att . 7, 15, 2. 2 He may, however, have been influen

iciebam oculos ex eo die quo in aedem Telluris convocati sumus. ’ 2 Ad Att . 10, 10, 2: ‘Nam qui se medium esse vult in patri

).. 3 As Mommsen called it, Ges. Schr. iv, 173. Cf. Dio 46, 34. 4 Ad Att . 15, 29, ι: ‘Sextum scutum abicere nolebam. ’ P

fter the assassination of Caesar, nothing but NotesPage=>140 1 Ad Att . 16, 7, ι; Phil. 1, 8. Cf. above, p. 117. 2 Ib.

ssed between them. Octavianus now had an army NotesPage=>141 1 Ad Att , 14, 13a; 13b (Cicero’s reply). 2 Above, p. 114

rting the Caesarian revolutionary. Octavianus NotesPage=>142 1 Ad Att . 16, 8 (Nov. 2nd), cf. 16, 9 (one or two days lat

. 16, 24, 2 of uncertain date, but fitting November of this year. 6 Ad Att . 16, 8, 1, cf. 16, 14, 2. 7 Ib. 16, 15, 3. 8

iosam putat. ’ 4 It was finished first and sent to Atticus in July ( Ad Att . 16, 2, 6), the De officiis not until November (i

instituendo principe civitatis quem dicit alendum esse gloria. ’ 6 Ad Att . 16, 13b, 2 PageBook=>146 to make history.

rum Caesari me auctorem et hortatorem et esse et fuisse fateor. ’ 3 Ad Att . 16, 8, 2: δ Brute, ubi es? quantam ∈ὐκαιρίαν ami

ssion of private virtues, if such they should NotesPage=>156 1 Ad Att . 14, 21, 2; 15, 2, 3 (‘timere otium’). 2 Phil.

1 Ad Att. 14, 21, 2; 15, 2, 3 (‘timere otium’). 2 Phil. 12, 3. 3 Ad Att . 15, 7 (used of Ser. Sulpicius Rufus). Cf. also ‘

quo minus pro rei p. salute etiam cum inimicissimo consentiam. ’ 6 Ad Att . 14, 20, 4: ‘Hirtium per me meliorem fieri volunt

ρους ἐποί∈ι πρὸς τὴν μ∈ταβολὴν ὡς πανταχοῦ τῇ πατρίδι βοηθοῦντας. 3 Ad Att . 9, 7c, I: ‘haec nova sit ratio vincendi ut miser

, 1); Cicero years before ‘iste omnium turpissimus et sordidissimus’ ( Ad Att . 9, 9, 3). PageBook=>167 Egypt in October,

elf in the previous November had written μηδ σωθϵίην ὑπό γϵ τοιούτου ( Ad Att . 16, 15, 3). 3 Ib. 1, 16, 8: ‘longe a servienti

erhaps the haruspex Vulcanius mentioned by Servius on Ecl. 9, 47. 3 Ad Att . 9, 10, 2 4 Appian, BC 4, 17, 65. 5 e.g., the

164) and Spinther’s son, quaestor under Trebonius (below, n. 9). 3 Ad Att . 16, 4, 4 (Ahenobarbus); Velleius 2, 71, 2 (Lucul

Republic. NotesPage=>272 1 Dio 42, 35, 5. 2 Phil 2, 97. 3 Ad Att . 14, 12, 1. PageBook=>273 Egypt itself, ho

’; ‘Sallust’, In Ciceronem 4; Macrobius 2, 3, 5 (Vatinius’ joke). 2 Ad Att . 8, 16, ι; 9, 5, 3. 3 Above, pp. 86 ff. PageB

to stand for the consulate in 67 B.C. (Val. Max. 3, 8, 3) and in 65 ( Ad Att . 1, 1, 1). 4 Suetonius, Divus Iulius 24, 1. 5

ostovtzeff, Soc. and Ec. Hist. of the Roman Empire (1926), 573 f. 3 Ad Att . 7, 7, 6. 4 Ib. 5, 1, 2. 5 Suetonius, Divus A

VII at end. 4 Q. Volusius was the son-in-law of a Tiberius (Cicero, Ad Att . 5, 21, 6), i.e., probably of Tiberius’ father or

d and compliant apologists of despotism. PageNotes. 459 1 Cicero, Ad Att . 2, 19, 3. PageBook=>460 The Republican po