History of Julius Cæsar, Vol. 1 of 2

by Emperor of the French Napoleon III

[1082] Suetonius, Cæsar, 50.

[1083] Cicero, Letters to Quintus, I. 1, 11.

[1084] Cæsar, when consul and dictator, declared many foreign cities free.

[1085] It will be seen in the next chapter that Cæsar recognized as friends to the Roman people Auletes, king of Egypt, and Ariovistus, king of the Germans.

[1086] Duumvirs, decemvirs, vigintivirs were the names given to magistrates who shared the same duties in boards of two, ten, or twenty. In the present case, however, the object was only to bind together the men of the greatest importance by a secret bond. Therefore the word triumvirate would be a misnomer.

[1087] “He wished me to join these three intimate consular men.” (Cicero, Oration on the Consular Provinces, 17.)

[1088] Dio Cassius, XXXVII. 57.

[1089] Cicero, Familiar Letters, V. 12.

[1090] Suetonius, Cæsar, 19.—Eutropius, VI. 14.—Plutarch, Cæsar, 13.

[1091] Suetonius, Cæsar, 19.