[167] Pro Cluentio, 1.
[168] De Lege Agraria, ii., 5.
[169] He alludes here to his own colleague Antony, whom through his whole year of office he had to watch lest the second Consul should join the enemies whom he fears—should support Rullus or go over to Catiline. With this view, choosing the lesser of the two evils, he bribes Antony with the government of Macedonia.
[170] De Lege Agraria, i., 7 and 8.
[171] The "jus imaginis" belonged to those whose ancestors was counted an Ædile, a Prætor, or a Consul. The descendants of such officers were entitled to have these images, whether in bronze, or marble, or wax, carried at the funerals of their friends.
[172] Forty years since, Marius who was also "novus homo," and also, singularly enough, from Arpinum, had been made Consul, but not with the glorious circumstances as now detailed by Cicero.
[173] De Lege Agraria, ii., 1, 2, and 3.
[174] See Introduction.
[175] Pliny the elder, Hist. Nat., lib. vii., ca. xxxi.
[176] The word is "proscripsisti," "you proscribed him." For the proper understanding of this, the bearing of Cicero toward Antony during the whole period of the Philippics must be considered.