[28]. Drumann, Geschichte Roms, etc., vols. v., vi.
[29]. Mommsen, Römische Geschichte, vol. iii.
[30]. Pro Rosc. Amer. 16.
[31]. De leg. ii. 1.
[32]. Ad Att. xii. 52.
[33]. It has been remarked that, in his Republic, Cicero speaks of kingship with much esteem, and even a sort of emotion which may easily surprise us in a republican like him; but he understands by it a kind of primitive and patriarchal government, and he demands so many virtues in the king and his subjects that we see very well that he does not think that this royalty was easy or even possible. We cannot therefore admit, as has been done by some, that Cicero meant to announce beforehand, and to approve of the revolution that Caesar accomplished some years later. On the contrary, he indicates in very clear terms what he will think of Caesar and his government when he attacks those tyrants who, in their greed for rule, wish to govern alone, in contempt of the rights of the people. “The tyrants many be clement,” he adds; “but what does it matter whether we have an indulgent or a barbarous master? One is none the less a slave with either” (De Rep. i. 33).
[34]. In Verr. act. sec. v. 70.
[35]. De Rep. i. 26.
[36]. Ibid. i. 34.
[37]. De Rep. i. 45.