[697] Schol. Bob. Pro Sextio, 297.—Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, IV. 16; Epist. Familiar., XIII. 19.
[698] “Cæsar has written to me from Britain a letter dated on the Calends of September (28th of August), which I received on the 4th of the Calends of October (23rd of September). His mourning had prevented my replying and congratulating him.” (Cicero, Epist. ad Quintum, III. 1.)
[699] “In Cæsar’s affliction, I dare not write to him, but I write to Balbus.” (Cicero, Epist. Familiar., VII. 9.)—“How kind and affecting is Cæsar’s letter! There is in what he writes a charm which increases my sympathy for the misfortune which afflicts him.” (Cicero, Epist. ad Quintum, III. 1.)
[700] Plutarch, Pompey, 4.
[701] Suetonius, Cæsar, 27.
[702] Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, IV. 17.—Suetonius, Cæsar, 36.
[703] Pliny, Hist. Nat., XXXVI. 15.
[704] Appian, De Bel. Civil., II. 102.
[705] “Have you any other protégé to send me? I take charge of him.” (Letter of Cæsar cited by Cicero, Epist. Familiar., VII. 5.)—“I say not a word, I take not a step in Cæsar’s interest, but he immediately testifies in high terms that he attaches to it a value which assures me of his affection.” (Cicero, Epist. Familiar., VII. 5.)
[706] “I dispose, as though they were my own, of his credit, which is preponderant, and of his resources, which, you know, are immense.” (Epist. Familiar., I. 9.)—A few years later, when Cicero foresaw the civil war, he wrote to Atticus: “There is, however, an affair of which I shall not cease speaking as long as I write to you at Rome: it is Cæsar’s credit. Free me, before leaving, I implore you.” (Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, V. 6.)