[1172] Cicero, in his speech against Vatinius, chap. 6, while reproaching him for having disregarded the auspices, exclaims, “I ask you first, Did you refer the matter to the Senate, as Cæsar did?”
“It is true that Cæsar’s acts were, for the benefit of peace, confirmed by the Senate.” (Cicero, Second Philippic, 39.)
[1173] Dio Cassius, XXXVIII. 7.
[1174] Cæsar conducted himself with discretion in his consulship.” (Plutarch, Crassus, 17.)
[1175] “Cæsar published laws that were worthy, I will not say of a consul, but of the most reckless of tribunes.” (Plutarch, Cæsar, 14.)
[1176] Cicero, Letters to Atticus, VI. 1.—Appian, Civil Wars, II. 13.
[1177] Pliny, Natural History, XXXIII. 5. Drumann and Mommsen, like ourselves, refuse their belief to the assertion of Suetonius.
[1178] Plutarch, Lucullus, 9.
[1179] Suetonius, Cæsar, 22.—Plutarch, Cæsar, 14.
[1180] Appian, Civil Wars, II. 14.