[847] “Curio, in his ill humour at not having obtained the intercalation, has thrown himself, with unequalled levity, into the party of the people, and began to speak on Cæsar’s side.” (Cœlius to Cicero, Epist. Familiar., VIII. 6.)
[848] See Appendix A.
[849] Dio Cassius, XL. 62.
[850] Cœlius to Cicero, Epist. Familiar., VIII. 6.
[851] Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, VI. 1; Ad Div., VIII. vi. 5.—Appian, Civil Wars, II. 27.
[852] The following letter explains the nature of this tax: “This man of importance (P. Vedius) met me with two chariots, a chaise, a litter, and so great a number of valets, that, if Curio’s law passes, Vedius will surely be taxed at 100,000 sestertii. He had, moreover, a cynocephalus in one of his chariots, and wild asses in his equipage. I never saw a man so ridiculous.” (Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, VI. i. 22.)
[853] Dio Cassius, XL. 63.
[854] Cicero, Epist. Familiar., VIII. 14.
[855] De Bello Gallico, VIII. 50, 51, 52.
[856] De Bello Gallico, VIII. 52.