[65]. Ibid. xii. 12.

[66]. Ad Brut. 3.

[67]. Philipp. iii. 14.

[68]. Apud Senec., Suas, 6.

[69]. Plut. Cic. 48.

[70]. De offic. ii. 21: Things had not changed when Cicero was consul. We see that his brother, in a letter that he addressed to him then, says that there were few knights in Rome, pauci equites, that is, few men possessing more than £3200.

[71]. Parad. 6. Qui honeste rem quaerunt mercaturis faciendis, operis dandis publicis sumendis, etc.

[72]. Hist. xxxiv. 4.

[73]. In Verrem, act. prim. 14.

[74]. De petit cons. 5 and 9.