The Letters, Volume 4 by Cicero

Author:Cicero [Cicero]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Philosophie
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2018-03-07T23:00:00+00:00

198 M. Valerius Messalla, who had been with young Cicero at Athens. See vol. iii., p.225.

199 Bucilianus and his brother Caecilius were induced by Brutus to join the assassins ( App. B.C. 2.113, 117). He accompanied Brutus to Macedonia (see p.104). What had occurred about him now we cannot tell.

200 As legatus of a proconsul Cicero would have the right to the services of some public mules or horses.

201 Referring again to the increasing bodyguard enlisted by Antony from the flower of the veterani. See p. 8, etc.

202 The decemviri or land-commissioners for distributing extra-Italian land.

203 Theophanes of Mitylene, who had been Pompey's secretary and friend (vol. i., p.90).

204 The younger Quintus, Cicero's nephew.

205 The seven land-commissioners (for distributing land in Italy among the veterans) were Marcus and Gaius Antonius, Dolabella, Domitius of Apulia, P. Decius, Nucula, and Lento. Nucula was a mime-writer, Lento an actor ( Phil. 6.14 ; 8, § 26; 11, § 13). What Cicero thought of these land-commissions (septemviri for Italy, decemviri for extra-Italian land) may be seen in Phil. 2.101.

206 Nicias of Cos was a grammarian (vol. ii., p.221). Cicero means that as his legateship to Dolabella was a colourable one, Dolabella may as well give him some trifling commissions to keep up appearances.

207 The text is corrupt.

208 See p.19 (Att. xiv. ii), from whence it appears that Cicero did not hear the speech, but read it.

209 Taking Madvig's quo Catulus usus est. C. Lutatius Catulus was put to death by Marius or forced to kill himself in B.C. 87.

210 Sextus Pompeius. Carteia is the modern St. Roch, near Gibraltar.

211 He saw him again in July at Antium and at Velia in August, but never after Brutus left Italy.

212 About £1,600.

213 Certain houses at Rome which had belonged to Terentia and were retained to furnish her son's allowance. See p.90.

214 Antony, who—as Cicero said before (p. 95)-was pretending to be afraid of Brutus and Cassius.

215 See p.73.

216 The younger Quintus was, it seems, much given to romancing. See Letter DCVII ( Att. 13.30 ); cp. pp.78, 97. His present object seems to have been to get over his father, probably in view of money help. Antony revenged himself on him for his change of allegiance by putting him on the proscription list in B.C. 43.

217 Apparently as to young Quintus marrying Cana, daughter of Q. Gellius Canus. See Letter DCLVIII.

218 Cana had divorced her previous husband.

219 Perhaps the de Amicitia.

220 Modern Otranto.

221 Sext. Pompeius was in command of a great fleet, and was dominating Southern Spain and Sicily. The senate was later on glad to acknowledge him as commander of the Roman fleet against Antony. Antony had proposed to restore him to his civil rights, and get about 5,000,000 sterling voted him as compensation for his father's property, but the negotiations had broken down, owing to his demands of a more complete restoration of property (see Letter DCCLXVIII; Appian, B.C. 3.4 ). At present, therefore, his coming would be the beginning of a civil war which Cicero was dreading and hoped to get out of Italy in time to avoid it.

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