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e punishment of Catiline's associates.] [Footnote 466: Some notice of this man is contained in the Life of Lucullus, c. 34, 38, and the Life of Cicero, c. 29. The affair of the Bona Dea, which made a great noise in Rome, is told very fully in Cicero's letters to Atticus (i. 12, &c.), which were written at the time. The feast of the Bona Dea was celebrated on the first of May, in the house of the Consul or of the Praetor Urbanus. There is some further information about it in Plutarch's Romanae Quaestiones (ed. Wyttenbach, vol. ii.). According to Cicero (_De Haruspicum Responsis_, c. 17), the real name of the goddess was unknown to the men; and Dacier considers it much to the credit of the Roman ladies that they kept the secret so well. For this ingenious remark I am indebted to Kaltwasser's citation of Dacier; I have not had curiosity enough to look at Dacier's notes.] [Footnote 467: The divorce of Pompeia is mentioned by Cicero (_Ad Attic._ i. 13).] [Footnote 468: Clodius was tried B.C. 61, and acquitted by a corrupt jury (judices). (See Cicero, _Ad Attic._ i. 16.) Kaltwasser appears to me to have mistaken this passage. The judices voted by ballot, which had been the practice in Rome in such trials since the passing of the Lex Cassia B.C. 137. Drumanu remarks (_Geschichte Roms_, Claudii, p. 214, note) that Plutarch has confounded the various parts of the procedure at the trial; and it may be so. See the Life of Cicero, c. 29. There is a dispute as to the meaning of the term Judicia Populi, to which kind of Judicia the Lex Cassia applied. (Orelli, _Onomasticon_, Index Legum, p. 279.)] [Footnote 469: Caesar was Praetor (B.C. 60) of Hispania Ulterior or Baetica, which included Lusitania.] [Footnote 470: A similar story is told by Suetonius (_Caesar_, 7) and Dion Cassius (37. c. 52), but they assign it to the time of Caesar's quaestorship in Spain.] [Footnote 471: The Calaici, or Callaici, or Gallaeci, occupied that part of the Spanish peninsula which extended from the Douro north and north-west to the Atlantic. (Strabo, p. 152.) The name still exists in the modern term Gallica. D. Junius Brutus, consul B.C. 138, and the grandfather of one of Caesar's murderers, triumphed over the Callaici and Lusitani, and obtained the name Callaicus. The transactions of Caesar in Lusitania are recorded by Dion Cassius (37. c. 52).] [Footnote 472: Many of the creditors were probably Romans. (Velleius Pat. ii 43, and the
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