[837] Cicero to Curio, Epist. Familiar., II. 7.
[838] Cicero, Brutus, lx. 218.
[839] Suetonius, Cæsar, 49.
[840] Plutarch, Antony, 2.—Cicero, Philippica, II. xix. 48.
[841] See his biography in Appendix D.
[842] Cicero, Philippica, II. xx. 49.
[843] Appian, Civil Wars, II. 26.—Yet Cicero, who never spared his adversaries, makes no mention of this act of corruption; and Velleius Paterculus (II. 48) expresses himself as follows: “Did Curio, as has been said, sell himself? It is a question we cannot venture to decide.”
[844] “Æmilius Paulus built, they say, with this money the famous basilica which bears his name.” (Appian, Civil Wars, II. 26.)
[845] “It was said of him that there was no man so low but he thought him worth the trouble of gaining.” (Cicero, Ad Div., VIII. 22.)
[846] A villa near Aricia. (Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, VI. 1.)