[757] Velleius Paterculus, II. 68.
[758] Plutarch, Pompey, 58.
[759] Dio Cassius, XL. 53.
[760] Appian, Civil Wars, II. 24.
[761] Dio Cassius, XL. 52.
[762] Plutarch, Pompey, 59.
[763] Dio Cassius, XL. 56; comp. 30.
[764] Tacitus, Annales, III. 28.
[765] “Shall I pronounce against Cæsar? But what then becomes of that faith sworn, when, for this same privilege which he demands, I myself, at his prayer at Ravenna, went to solicit Cœlius, the tribune of the people? What do I say, at this prayer! at the prayer of Pompey himself, then invested with his third consulship, of eternal memory.” (Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, VII. 1.
[766] “It is he, Pompey, who has absolutely willed that the ten tribunes should propose the decree which permitted Cæsar to ask for the consulship without coming to Rome.” (Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, VIII. 3.—Dio Cassius, XL. 56.—Suetonius, Cæsar, 28.)