[887] Year 704, December. Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, VII. 8.

[888] “Senatus frequens in alia transiit.” (De Bello Gallico, VIII. 43.)

[889] “Neque senatu interveniente.” (De Bello Gallico, VIII. 4.)

[890] Suetonius, Cæsar, 30.

[891] Appian, Civil Wars, II. 22.—Plutarch, Cæsar, 41; Pompey, 85.

[892] De Bello Gallico, VIII. 54.

[893] It ended before the consular year.

[894] Drumann is of opinion that the “Commentaries” are in error in mentioning Fabius.

[895] Plutarch, Pompey, 59.—Appian, Civil Wars, II. 32.

[896] Velleius Paterculus, II. 49.