[620] Plutarch, Cato, 45, tells us that Cato returned under the consulship of Marcius Philippus.
[621] Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 23.
[622] Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 7.
[623] Cicero, Epist. ad Quintum, II. 1.
[624] Plutarch, Cato, 40; Cicero, 45.
[625] “There has reached me a mass of private talk of people here, whom you may guess, who have always been, and always are, in the same ranks with me. They openly rejoice at knowing that I am, at the same time, already on terms of coolness with Pompey, and on the point of quarrelling with Cæsar; but what was most cruel was to see their attitude towards my enemy (Clodius), to see them embrace him, flatter him, coax him, and cover him with caresses.” (Cicero, Epist. Familiar., I. 9.)
[626] Cicero, Epist. ad Quintum, II. 3.
[627] These words are reported by Cicero (Epist. ad Quintum, II. 3), to whom they were addressed by Pompey. Dio Cassius, contrary to all probability, pretends that Pompey, from this moment, was irritated against Cæsar, and sought to deprive him of his province. There is no proof of such an allegation. The interview at Lucca, which took place this same year, offers a formal contradiction to it.
[628] See Nonius Marcellus (edit. Gerlach and Roth, p. 261), who quotes a passage from Book XXII. of the Annals of Fenestella, who wrote under Augustus or Tiberius.
[629] Suetonius, Cæsar, 24.