[315]. Pro Marc. 10.
[316]. Ad Att. xii. 45.
[317]. Pro Dejot. 12.
[318]. “All the honest men,” said Cicero (Phil. ii. 12), “in so far as they could, have killed Caesar. Some wanted the means, others the resolution, several the opportunity; no one wanted the will.”
[319]. Ann. i. 3.
[320]. The authenticity of these letters has been often called in question since the last century, and has been debated in Germany quite recently with much warmth, and a distinguished critic, F. Hermann of Göttingen, has published some remarkable essays, to which it seems to me difficult to reply, in order to prove that they are really letters of Brutus and Cicero. I have summed up his principal arguments in Recherches sur la manière dont furent recueillies les lettres de Cicéron, ch. v.
[321]. Ad Att. vi. 1.
[322]. Ad fam. iii. 11.
[323]. Ad Att. vi. 1.
[324]. Orat. 10.