BREAD STREET HILL, E. C., AND
BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.
[1]. The course of this work will show that I have made great use of works published in Germany, especially the fine Roman History of M. Mommsen, so learned and at the same time so living. I do not always share his opinions, but the influence of his ideas will be perceived even in passages where I do not agree with him. He is the master of all who study Rome and her history now.
[2]. Corn. Nepos, Att. 16.
[3]. See Cicero’s Epist. ad fam. ii. 8 and viii. 1. I shall quote Orelli’s edition of Cicero’s works in the course of this work.
[4]. I have attempted to clear up some of the questions to which the publication of Cicero’s letters has given rise in a treatise entitled, Recherches sur la manière dont furent recueillies et publiées les lettres de Cicéron, Paris, Durand, 1863.
[5]. Pro. Rosc. com. 7.
[6]. In Verrem. act. sec. v. 11.
[7]. In Vatin. 2.