[836] Cicero, Second Prosecution of Verres, III. 89. Cicero adds in a letter, “We may judge, by the sufferings of our own fellow-citizens, of what the inhabitants of the provinces have to endure from the public farmers (publicani). When several tolls were suppressed in Italy, remonstrances were made not so much against the principle of taxation as against abuses in levying it, and the cries of the Romans on the soil of the country tell only too plainly what must be the fate of the allies at the extremity of the empire.” (Letters to Quintus, I. 1, § 33.)
[837] Dio Cassius, 86; Fragments, CCCI. edit. Gros.
[838] Cicero, On Duties, II. 17; Letters to Quintus, II. 6, § 4.—Plutarch, Brutus, 14.
[839] Florus, III. 21.
[840] “The name of C. Marius—of that great man who we may justly call the father of the country, the regenerator of our liberty, the saviour of the Republic.” (Cicero, Speech for Rabirius, 10.)—“I have, as your guarantee, your indignation against Sylla.” (Dio Cassius, XXXVI. 17, Oration of Catulus to the Senate.)—“Where can we find a personage (Marius) more serious, more firm, more distinguished by courage, circumspection, conscience?” (Cicero, Speech for Balbus, 25.)—“Not only do we suffer his acts (Sylla’s), but to prevent worse disasters, greater ills, we give them the sanction of public authority.” (Cicero, Second Prosecution of Verres, III. 35.)
[841] Plutarch, Cæsar, 6.
[842] Plutarch, Pompey, 12.
[843] Pompey slew Carbo, Perpenna, and Brutus, the father of the assassin of Cæsar, who had yielded themselves to him: the first had protected his youth and saved his patrimony. (Valerius Maximus, V. iii. v.)
[844] Count Franz de Champagny, Les Cæsars, I. p. 50.
[845] “It was in his character to show little regard for what he was ambitious to obtain.” (Dio Cassius, XXXVI. 7.)—“Pompey, with a heart as depraved as his face was pure.” (Sallust, Fragments, II. 176.)