The Dictator himself had taken a Metella to wife. […] On January 1st a proposal of Caesar was rejected and he was declared contumacious: six days later his province was taken from him. […] No other decision was taken. […] Crete and Cyrene were taken from Brutus and Cassius, while Macedonia was assigned to his brother, the praetor C. […] No other authority gives ‘Salvius’ as his name: had he taken to latinizing the alien gentilicium?