, that I most look forward to, yet meanwhile I
long for a letter. Farewell, my dear brother.

[Footnote 469: L. AEmilius Paullus, praetor B.C. 53, consul B.C. 50, a
strong Optimate and friend of Cicero's.]

[Footnote 470: P. Vatinius, the tribune of B.C. 59, who had supported
Caesar and proposed the law for his five years' command in Gaul. Cicero
spoke against him for perjury; but afterwards we shall find them
ostensibly reconciled.]

[Footnote 471: A Greek grammarian and geographer, of whom we have heard
before, and shall hear of again in connexion with Cicero's library.]

[Footnote 472: P. Furius Crassipes. Tullia's first husband, C.
Calpurnius Piso Frugi, died, it seems, before Cicero returned from exile
in B.C. 57. This second marriage (or, perhaps, only betrothal) was
shortly ended by a divorce.]

[Footnote 473: _I.e._, on which the _sponsalia_ could not take place.]

[Footnote 474: Not going the right way to work to get it.]

[Footnote 475: At the end of the next letter he says that, pending
Quintus's arrival, he has stopped some of his building.]

[Footnote 476: On some alleged informality the _feriae Latinae_ were held
a second time (_instauratae_), really, Cicero implies, in order to bar
some additional days for public business, and prevent legislation, as
later on the election of Pompey and Crassus was prevented (Dio, xxxix.
30).]

[Footnote 477: At the end of B.C. 57, or the beginning of 56, fifteen
days of _supplicatio_ were decreed in consequence of Caesar's success in
Gaul (Caes. _B. G._ ii. 35).]

[Footnote 478: Gaius Cato the tribune, who proposed to recall Lentulus.]

[Footnote 479: A _scriba_ or public clerk, and a client of the patrician
Clodii.]

[Footnote 480: Unknown. Cicero's words seem to imply that he nearly got
convicted, but not quite.]

CV (Q FR II, 5 AND PARTS OF 6 AND 7)

TO HIS BROTHER QUINTUS (IN SARDINIA)

ROME, 8 APRIL

[Sidenote: B.C. 56, AET. 50]

I have already sent you a letter containing the information of my
daughter Tullia having been betrothed to Crassipes on the 4th of April,
and other intelligence public and private. The following are the events
since then. On the 5th of April, by a decree of the senate, a sum of
money amounting to 40,000 sestertia (about L320,000) was voted to Pompey
for the business of the corn-supply. But on the same day there was a
vehement debate on the Campanian land, the senators making almost as
much noise as a public meet