52: Q. Caecilius, a rich uncle of Atticus, so cross-grained
that no one but Atticus could get on with him, to whom he accordingly
left his large fortune (Nep. _Att._ 5).]

[Footnote 53: Hom. _Il._ xxii. 159, Achilles pursuing Hector:

"Since not for sacred beast or oxhide shield
They strove,--man's guerdon for the fleet of foot:
Their stake was Hector's soul, the swift steed's lord."
]

[Footnote 54: Reading _eius_ [Greek: anathema], and taking the latter
word in the common sense of "ornament": the Hermathena is so placed that
the whole gymnasium is as it were an ornament to it, designed to set it
off, instead of its being a mere ornament to the gymnasium. Professor
Tyrrell, however, will not admit that the words can have this or any
meaning, and reads, [Greek: heliou anamma], "sun light"--"the whole
gymnasium seems as bright as the sun"--a curious effect, after all, for
one statue to have.]

XI (A I, 2)

TO ATTICUS (AT ATHENS)

ROME, JULY

[Sidenote: B.C. 65, AET. 41]

I have to inform you that on the day of the election of L. Iulius Caesar
and C. Marcius Figulus to the consulship, I had an addition to my family
in the shape of a baby boy. Terentia doing well.

Why such a time without a letter from you? I have already written to you
fully about my circumstances. At this present time I am considering
whether to undertake the defence of my fellow candidate, Catiline.[55]
We have a jury to our minds with full consent of the prosecutor. I hope
that if he is acquitted he will be more closely united with me in the
conduct of our canvass; but if the result be otherwise I shall bear it
with resignation. Your early return is of great importance to me, for
there is a very strong idea prevailing that some intimate friends of
yours, persons of high rank, will be opposed to my election. To win me
their favour I see that I shall want you very much. Wherefore be sure to
be in Rome in January, as you have agreed to be.

* * * * *

[Sidenote: B.C. 62. Coss., D. Iunius Silanus, L. Licinius Murena.]

We have no letters to or from Cicero in the years B.C. 64 and
63,[56] partly, no doubt, because Atticus was in Rome a great deal
during these years. We take up the correspondence, therefore, after
an interval of two years, which in many respects were the most
important in Cicero's life. In B.C. 64 he attained his chief
ambition by being elected t