History of Julius Cæsar, Vol. 1 of 2

by Emperor of the French Napoleon III

[796] Orosius, V. 23.

[797] Suetonius, Cæsar, 3.

[798] Florus, III. 23.

[799] Appian, I. 107.

[800] Suetonius, Cæsar, 3.

[801] Sallust, Fragments, I., p. 363.

[802] Florus, III. 23.

[803] Suetonius, Cæsar, 3.

[804] “The Romans regarded as honourable accusations which had no private enmity as their motive, and they liked to see young men attach themselves to the pursuit of the guilty, as generous dogs attack wild beasts.” (Plutarch, Lucullus, 1.)

[805] Plutarch, Cæsar, 4.—Asconius, Discourse for Scaurus, XVI. ii. 245, edit. Schütz.