supposed to be
agitating for a dictatorship.]

[Footnote 605: L. AEmilius Paullus (consul B.C. 50) restored the basilica
built by his ancestor M. AEmilius Lepidus in B.C. 179, and appears to
have added largely to it, or even built a new one.]

[Footnote 606: These works seem to have been contemplated by the censors
and senate, and Cicero speaks of himself and Oppius as doing them
because they supported the measure. They were partly carried out by
Caesar but not completed till the time of Augustus.]

[Footnote 607: Because the tribunes stopped it--the formal act at the
end of the Censor's office--by _obnuntiationes_.]

[Footnote 608: The name of the law mentioned here is uncertain. The _lex
Cincia de munuibus_ forbade advocates taking fees for pleading.]

CXLIII (A IV, 15)

TO ATTICUS (IN EPIRUS)

ROME, 27 JULY

[Sidenote: B.C. 54, AET. 52]

I am glad about Eutychides, who, using your old _praenomen_ and your new
_nomen_, will be called Titus Caecilius, just as Dionysius, from a
combination of your names and mine, is Marcus Pomponius. I am, by
Hercules, exceedingly gratified that Eutychides has had cause to know
your kindness to me, and that the sympathy he shewed me in the time of
my sorrow was neither unnoticed at the time nor afterwards forgotten by
me. I suppose you were obliged to undertake your journey to Asia. For
you never would have been willing, without the most urgent cause, to be
so far from so many persons and things which you love so much, and which
give you so much delight. But the speed of your return will shew your
kindness and love for your friends. Yet I fear lest the rhetorician
Clodius, by his charms, and Pituanius, that excellent scholar, as he is
said to be, and now, indeed, so wholly devoted to Greek letters, may
detain you. But if you would shew the feelings of a man, come back to us
at the time you promised. You will, after all, be able to enjoy their
society at Rome, when they get there safe. You say you desire something
in the way of a letter from me: I have written, and, indeed, on many
subjects--everything detailed like a journal--but, as I conjecture from
your not having, as it seems, remained long in Epirus, I suppose it has
not reached you. Moreover, my letters to _you_ are generally of such a
kind, that I don't like to put them in anyone's hands, unless I can feel
certain that he will deliver them to you.

Now for affairs at Rome. On the 4th of July Sufenas and Cato w