[127] Suet., Aug. 11; Cic., ad Brut. i. 6.
[128] Cic., ad Fam. xi. 21.
[129] Dio, 46, 41; Livy, Ep. 118.
[130] Cic., ad Brut. i. 15.
[131] Id., ad Fam. xi. 20, 21, see ante p. 52.
[132] Id., ad Brut. i. 4; App., b. c. iii. 82; Dio, 46, 42; Plut., Cic. 46. There was evidently some rumour of Cicero intending to be consul, though he speaks with rather affected indignation of Octavian wishing to be elected also (ad Brut. i. 10).
[133] Cic., ad Brut. 1, 3.
[134] Id. § 4.
[135] Cic., ad Fam. xi. 10.
[136] He was perhaps deceived by the report that Octavian’s legions had taken an oath not to fight against any that had served under Iulius Cæsar. This applied to some men at present with Antony. But Dio implies that the oath was at the secret instigation of Octavian himself (Dio, 46, 42).