History of Julius Cæsar, Vol. 2 of 2

by Emperor of the French Napoleon III

[897] Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, VII. 9.

[898] Plutarch, Pompey, 63.

[899] Plutarch (Pompey, 59) pretends even that they read it before the people.

[900] Appian, Civil Wars, II. 32.

[901] Cæsar, De Bello Civili, I. 1.

[902] Cicero, Epist. Familiar., VIII. 8.

[903] Cæsar, De Bello Civili, I. 3.

[904] The Sibylline books had predicted the empire of Rome to three Cornelii: L. Cornelius Cinna had been consul; Sylla, dictator; Cornelius Lentulus was in hopes of being the third.

[905] Cicero, Epist. Familiar., XVI. 12.

[906] Appian, Civil Wars, II. 34.