[747] Dio Cassius, XL. 50.
[748] “The Senate and Bibulus, who was first to state his opinion, forestalled the thoughtless resolutions of the multitude by conferring the consulship on Pompey, in order that he might not be proclaimed dictator; and in conferring it upon him alone, in order that he might not have Cæsar for his colleague.” (Dio Cassius, XL. 2.)
[749] Plutarch, Cato, 47.
[750] Plutarch, Pompey, 57.
[751] Dio Cassius, XL. 50.
[752] Dio Cassius, XL. 52.—Cicero, Brutus, 94; Epist. ad Atticum, XIII 49.—Tacitus, Dialog. de Oratoribus, 38.
[753] This was the historian. He had been the paramour of Milo’s wife. Surprised by him in the very act, he had been cruelly beaten, and compelled to pay, without pity.
[754] Velleius Paterculus, II. 47.
[755] All this account is taken from the argument by Asconius Servius, serving as an introduction to his Commentary on the Oration for Milo. (See the edit. of Orelli, pp. 41, 42.—Dio Cassius, XL. 53.)
[756] Dio Cassius, XL. 54.