[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] Cæsar, 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 Cæsar 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 Cæsar the privilege. Pompey pleaded forgetfulness, but the change was probably forced upon him by Cæsar's influence.—Suetonius, J. Cæsar, 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 Cilicia, and may thus be taken as evidence outside his own, though addressed to himself.