[856] “Cotta judicandi munus, quod C. Gracchus ereptum Senatui, ad equites, Sylla ab illis ad Senatum transtulerat, æqualiter inter utrumque ordinem partitus est.” (Velleius Paterculus, II. 32.)
[857] “Equidem mihi videor pro nostra necessitate, non labore, non opera, non industria defuisse.” (Certainly, I believe I have displayed all the zeal, all the endeavour, all the ability which our kinship demands.) Cæsar, quoted by Aulus Gellius, XIII. 3.—Nonius Marcellus, “On the different significations of words,” under the word Necessitas.
[858] Sallust, Fragments, I. 68.
[859] Plutarch, Pompey, 21.
[860] Plutarch, Cæsar, 5.—Suetonius, Cæsar, 6.
[861] Plutarch, Cæsar, 5.
[862] The images of Æneas, of Romulus, and of the Kings of Alba Longa also figured in the funeral canopy of the Julia family. (Tacitus, Annales, IV. 9.)
[863] Plutarch, Cæsar, 5.—Velleius Paterculus, II. 43.
[864] Cicero, Oration on the Manilian Law, 12; For Fonteius, 2.
[865] Cæsar, Civil War, I. 37.