[657] Plutarch, Cæsar, 18.
[658] Suetonius, Cæsar, 57.
[659] “What does Cæsar think of my poem, I pray? He has written to me that he had read the first book, and that he had seen nothing, even in Greek, which ever pleased him more. The rest, up to a certain passage, is less finished: that is his expression. Tell me what it is that displeases him, the matter or the form, and fear not to speak candidly”. (Cicero, Ep. ad Quint., II. 16.)
[660] Plutarch, Crassus, 16.—Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 31.
[661] Plutarch, Cato, 48; Pompey, 54.
[662] Cicero, Epist. Familiar., I. 9.
[663] Plutarch, Pompey, 55.
[664] Cicero, Epist. ad Quintum, II. 9.
[665] The country of the Vaccæi comprised part of old Castile, of the kingdom of Leon, and of the Basque provinces. Clunia, a town of the Celtiberii, was situated near Coruña del Conde.
[666] Plutarch, Crassus, 19.