[816] Suetonius mentions, as an act of humanity, that their corpses alone were nailed to the cross, Cæsar having had them strangled beforehand to shorten their agony. (Suetonius, Cæsar, 74.—Velleius Paterculus, II. 42.)
[817] Suetonius, Cæsar, 4.
[818] Velleius Paterculus, II. 43.—Asconius, On the Oration of Cicero against Pisa; edit. Orelli.
[819] Velleius Paterculus, II. 53.
[820] Suetonius, Cæsar, 5.—Plutarch, Cæsar, 5.
[821] The tribunes by the nomination of the general were usually called rufuli, because they were established by the law of Rutilius Rufus; the military tribunes elected by the people were called comitati; they were held as veritable magistrates. (Pseudo-Asconius, Commentary on the First Speech of Cicero against Verres, p. 142, edit. Orelli; and Festus under Rufuli, p. 261, edit. Müller.)
[822] Plutarch, Sertorius, 15, 16.
[823] “The enemy was already master of the passes which lead to Italy; from the foot of the Alps, he (Pompey) drove him back to Spain.” (Sallust, Letter from Pompey to the Senate.)
[824] Velleius Paterculus, II. 30.—100,000 according to Appian (Civil Wars, I. 117).
[825] Plutarch, Lucullus, 8.