[916] Cicero, Second Oration on the Agrarian Law, xvi.
[917] “Augustus made it one, among other state maxims, to sequester Egypt, forbidding the Roman knights and senators of the first rank ever to go there without his permission. He feared that Italy might be famished by the first ambitious person who should seize the province, where, holding the keys of both land and sea, he might defend himself with very few soldiers against great armies.” (Tacitus, Annals, II. 59.)
[918] Suetonius, Cæsar, 11.
[919] Dio Cassius, XXXVII. 9.
[920] “You name me a foreigner because I have come from a municipal town. If you regard us as foreigners, although our name and rank were formerly well established at Rome, and in public opinion, how much then must these competitors be foreigners in your eyes, this élite of Italy, who come from all parts to dispute with you magistrateships and honours?” (Cicero, Oration for Sylla, 8.)
[921] See Drumann, Julii, 147.
[922] J. Paul, Sentences, V. iv., p. 417, edit. Huschke.—Justinian, Institutes, IV. xviii. § 5.—Appian, On the Office of the Proconsul, vii.
[923] “Then, in the instructions directed against the sicarii, and the exceptions proposed by the Cornelian law, he ranked among these malefactors those who, during the proscription, had received money from the public treasury for having brought to Sylla the heads of Roman citizens.” (Suetonius, Cæsar, 11.)
[924] Plutarch, Cato, 21.—Dio Cassius, XLVII. 6.
[925] Cicero, Third Speech on the Agrarian Law, 4.