[667] Plutarch, Crassus, 19.
[668] Plutarch, Cæsar, 24.
[669] Plutarch, Cato, 49.—Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 34.
[670] Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 35.
[671] Plutarch, Cato, 49.—Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 33, 35.—Dio Cassius pretends erroneously that the imperium in the province of Gaul was only continued to Cæsar by a sort of favour, and but for three years, when his partisans murmured at seeing that Crassus and Pompey thought only for themselves. He does not mention the conference of Lucca, which is attested by Suetonius, Plutarch, and Appian. He forgets that Trebonius, Cæsar’s creature, was one of his most devoted lieutenants in the Civil War. We think that the testimony of the other historians is to be preferred.
[672] “In my opinion, that which it would have been best for his adversaries to do, would have been to cease a struggle which they are not strong enough to sustain.... At the present day the only ambition one can have is to be quiet, and those who governed would be disposed to allow it us, if they found certain people less rigid against their domination.” (Cicero, Epist. Familiar., I. 8, letter to Lentulus.)
[673] Plutarch, Crassus, 19.
[674] Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 37.
[675] Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 38.
[676] Cicero, Epist. Familiar., VII. 1.