[1046] Dio Cassius, XXXVII. 51.
[1047] Plutarch, Cato, 35.
[1048] “People abuse the Senate; the equestrian order stands aloof from it. Thus this year will have seen the overthrow of the two solid foundations on which I, single-handed, had planted the Republic—the authority of the Senate and the union of the two orders.” (Cicero, Letters to Atticus, I. 18.)
[1049] Cicero, Letters to Atticus, II. 1.
[1050] Plutarch, Cæsar, 12.—Appian (Civil Wars, II. 2, § 8) speaks of twenty-five million sestertii—i.e., 4,750,000 francs [£190,000].
[1051] Suetonius, Cæsar, 18.
[1052] Cicero, Letter to Atticus, I. 14, 16.
[1053] “From his youth up he was zealous and true to his clients.” (Suetonius, Cæsar, 71.)
[1054] Suetonius, Cæsar, 12.
[1055] Plutarch, Cæsar, 12.