Cicero and his friends

by Gaston Boissier

[245]. Ad Att. iv. 5.

[246]. Ibid. iv. 6.

[247]. Ad fam. i. 9.

[248]. Ad fam. i. 9.

[249]. In Pis. 32.

[250]. Ad Quint. ii. 12.

[251]. Ibid. ii. 15.

[252]. This at least was the opinion of all the historians of antiquity. We read in a fragment of a letter from Cicero to Q. Axius quoted by Suetonius (Caes. 9): Caesar in consulatu confirmavit regnum de quo aedilis cogitaret.

[253]. Ad Quint. ii. 13.

[254]. Or only forty-two, if we place his birth in 654. See, on this point, an interesting note in the Life of Caesar, by Napoleon III., Bk. II. ch. i.