Footnote 12:
_V. Id. Sextil._ consequently on August 9th, according to the
_Kalendar. Amiternin._ in Foggini p. 112. 153. Not having access to
the book itself, I have borrowed the quotation from _Fischer’s
Römische Zeittafeln_, p. 278. Orelli (_Inscript._ II, p. 397) agrees
with it.—Germ. Ed.
Footnote 13:
Licinus was a barber, an upstart who had amassed an immense fortune,
and had caused himself to be splendidly buried.
Footnote 14:
When Dio Cassius, XLIII, 47, says, ὥστε καὶ ἐννακοσίους τὸ κεφάλαιον
αὐτῶν γενέσθαι, he does not mean by it a regularly fixed amount, but
an accidental maximum.—Germ. Ed.
Footnote 15:
The same friendly affection Cicero had shown also to Virgil, of whom
he is said to have used the expression, _Magnæ spes altera Romæ_:
Virgil, at the death of Cicero, was twenty-six years old. (Donat. vit.
Virgil. XI.)
Footnote 16:
The other prætorships were unimportant, their occupants being mere
chairmen of the courts of justice.
Footnote 17:
Against Demosthenes also similar calumnies were uttered, and the lines
(Plut. Demosth. c. 30),
Εἴπερ ἴσην ῥώμην γνώμη, Δημόσθενες, εἶχες,
Οὔποτ’ ἂν Ἑλλήνων ἦρξεν Ἄρης Μακεδών,
have been misrepresented, as having reference to it.
Footnote 18:
Posthumous Works, XIII, 68., “How little even the better men among
them (the Romans) understood what government means, may be seen from
the most absurd deed, which was ever done, even from the murder of
Cæsar.”
Footnote 19:
Plut. Brut., c. 40.—Germ. Ed.
Footnote 20:
See vol. I., p. 406.
Footnote 21:
According to Cic. Brut. c. 64. and 94. Hortensius had made his first
speech in the consulship of L. Crassus, and Q. Scævola (657 according
to Cato), ten years before the birth of Brutus, who was therefore born
in 667, and as he died in 710, must have been in his forty-fourth
year. The other statement is that of Velleius Paterculus.—Germ. Ed.
Footnote 22: