0] Ad Fam., lib. vii., 7.

[51] Vell. Pat., ii., 47.

[52] We remember the scorn with which Horace has treated the
Roman soldier whom he supposes to have consented to accept
both his life and a spouse from the Parthian conqueror:

Milesne Crassi conjuge barbara
Turpis maritus vixit?--Ode iii., 5.

It has been calculated that of 40,000 legionaries half were
killed, 10,000 returned to Syria, and that 10,000 settled
themselves in the country we now know as Merv.

[53] Ad Quin. Frat., lib. ii., 4, and Ad Att., lib. iv., 5.

[54] "Interrogatio de aere alieno Milonis."

[55] Livy, Epitome, 107: "Absens et solus quod nulli alii
umquam contigit."

[56] The Curia Hostilia, in which the Senate sat frequently,
though by no means always.

[57] Ca. ii.

[58] Ca. v.

[59] Ca. xx., xxi.

[60] Ca. xxix.

[61] Ca. xxxvii.: "O me miserum! O me infelicem! revocare tu
me in patriam, Milo, potuisti per hos. Ego te in patria per
eosdem retinere non potero!" "By the aid of such citizens as
these," he says, pointing to the judges' bench, "you were
able to restore me to my country. Shall I not by the same
aid restore you to yours?"

[62] Ad Fam., lib. xiii., 75.

[63] Ad Fam., lib. vii., 2: "In primisque me delectavit
tantum studium bonorum in me exstitisse contra incredibilem
contentionem clarissimi et potentissimi viri."

[64] Caesar, a Sketch, p. 336.

[65] Ibid., p. 341.

[66] He reached Laodicea, an inland town, on July 31st, B.C.
51, and embarked, as far as we can tell, at Sida on August
3d, B.C. 50. It may be doubted whether any Roman governor
got to the end of his year's government with greater
despatch.

[67] No exemption was made for Caesar in Pompey's law as it
originally stood; and after the law had been inscribed as
usual on a bronze tablet it was altered at Pompey's order,
so as to give Caesar the privilege. Pompey pleaded
forgetfulness, but the change was probably forced upon him
by Caesar's influence.--Suetonius, J. Caesar, xxviii.

[68] Ad Div., lib. iii., 2.

[69] Ad Att., lib. v., 1.

[70] Abeken points out to us, in dealing with the year in
which Cicero's government came to an end, B.C. 50, that
Cato's letters to Cicero (Ad Fam., lib. xv., 5) bear
irrefutable testimony as to the real greatness of Cicero.
See the translation edited by Merivale, p. 235. This applies
to his conduct in Cilici