[926] Dio Cassius, XXXVII. 10.—Asconius, Commentary on the Orations of Cicero, “In Toga Candida,” pp. 91, 92, edit Orelli.
[927] Asconius, In Toga Candida, p. 91.
[928] Sallust, Catiline, 19.
[929] Plutarch, Cicero, 15.
[930] “I am preparing at this moment to defend Catiline, my competitor. I hope, if I obtain his acquittal, to find him disposed to come to an understanding with me on our next steps. If he is against this, I will [I shall know what to do (?)] take my way.” (Cicero, Letters to Atticus, I. ii.)
[931] Cicero, Oration for Sylla, 29.
[932] Plutarch, Cato, 3.
[933] Asconius, Cicero’s Oration, “In Toga Candida,” p. 82, edit. Orelli.
[934] Plutarch, Cicero, 3.
[935] They called new men those who amongst their ancestors counted none that had held a high magistracy. (Appian, Civil Wars, II. 2.)—Cicero also confirms this fact: “I am the first new man that, for a great number of years, is remembered to have been appointed consul; and this eminent post, in which the nobility were in a manner entrenched, and to which they had closed all the avenues, you have, to place me at your head, forced the barriers; you have desired that merit henceforth find them open.” (Cicero, Second Oration on the Agrarian Law, 1.)