Cicero and his friends

by Gaston Boissier

[48]. De brevit. vitæ, 5. Non sine causa, sed sine fine laudatus.

[49]. On the exile of Cicero, and the policy that he followed after his return, see the study on Caesar and Cicero, Part I.

[50]. Ad Att. ix. 1.

[51]. Ibid. x. 7.

[52]. Ad Att. ix. 10.

[53]. De bello civ. i. 22.

[54]. He even seems to say several times that the position of the plebeians in the republic was, on the whole, better than that of the patricians (Pro Cluent. 40. Pro domo sua, 14).

[55]. Pro Sext. 49.

[56]. De bello afric. 45.

[57]. De bello civ. ii, 32.