7 circa Pharmacussam insulam: S.W. of Miletus (= mod. Farmako).
8-9 non sine summa indignatione: Plutarch, Caes. gives a picturesque account of his adventures as their prisoner.
10 cubicularis (cubiculum) = lit. chamber-servants.
11 pecunias . . . Velleius says that Caesar’s ransom was paid out of public funds.
14 e vestigio (= statim) = immediately.
Caesar at Rhodes. ‘Caesar, from what we know of his taste and character, could hardly have found the same delight as Cicero in his studies at Rhodes. He nevertheless became one of the greatest orators of his day, and according to some accounts, second only to Cicero. It is characteristic of Caesar, but unfortunate for us, that he never took any pains to collect and preserve his speeches.’—Warde Fowler.
CICERO PROSECUTES VERRES, 70 B.C.
A Roman Citizen maltreated.
Quid ego de P. Gavio, Consano municipe, dicam, indices? Aut qua vi vocis, qua gravitate verborum, quo dolore animi dicam? Quod crimen eius modi est ut, cum primum ad me delatum est, usurum me illo non putarem; tametsi enim verissimum esse 5 intellegebam, tamen credibile fore non arbitrabar. Quid nunc agam? Rem in medio ponam: quae tantum habet ipsa gravitatis ut neque mea, quae nulla est, neque cuiusquam ad inflammandos vestros animos eloquentia requiratur. 10