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. III. Military Tribunes with Consular Powers Notes for Chapter IX 1. iv. 434 2. Tigranes was still living in February 698 (Cic. pro Sest. 27, 59); on the other hand Artavasdes was already reigning before 700 (Justin, xlii. 2, 4; Plut. Crass. 49). 3. V. IV. Ptolemaeus in Egypt Recognized, but Expelled by His Subjects 4. V. IV. Military Pacification of Syria 5. V. VII. Repulse of the Helvetii, V. VII. Expeditions against the Maritime Cantons 6. V. VII. Cassivellaunus 7. V. VII. The Carnutes ff. 8. V. II. Renewal of the War 9. V. IV. Difficulty with the Parthians 10. IV. I. War against Aristonicus 11. V. VII. Insurrection 12. V. VIII. Humiliation of the Republicans 13. V. VIII. Changes in the Arrangement of Magistrates and the Jury-System 14. V. VIII. Humiliation of the Republicans 15. V. VIII. The Aristocracy Submits ff. 16. V. VIII. Changes in the Arrangement of Magistrates and the Jury-System 17. V. VIII. The Senate under the Monarchy 18. V. II. Mutiny of the Soldiers, V. III. Reappearance of Pompeius 19. V. VII. Alpine Peoples 20. V. IX. Dictatorship of Pompeius 21. -Homo ingeniosissime nequam- (Vellei. ii. 48). 22. V. IX. Debates as to Caesar's Recall 23. IV. X. The Restoration 24. V. II. Beginning of the Armenian War 25. To be distinguished from the consul having the same name of 704; the latter was a cousin, the consul of 705 a brother, of the Marcus Marcellus who was consul in 703. 26. V. IX. Debates ss to Caesar's Recall ff. 27. II. II. Intercession Notes for Chapter X 1. V. V. Transpadanes 2. V. V. Transpadanes 3. A centurion of Caesar's tenth legion, taken prisoner, declared to the commander-in-chief of the enemy that he was ready with ten of his men to make head against the best cohort of the enemy (500 men; Dell. Afric. 45). "In the ancient mode of fighting," to quote the opinion of Napoleon I, "a battle consisted simply of duels; what was only correct in the mouth of that centurion, would be mere boasting in the mouth of the modern soldier." Vivid proofs of the soldierly spirit that pervaded Caesar's army are furnished by the Reports--appended to his Memoirs--respecting the African and the second Spanish wars, of which the former appears to have had as its author an officer of the second rank, while the latter is in every respect a subaltern camp-journal. 4. V. IX. Debates as to Caesa
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