[2825] Cic. ibid.; Red. in Sen. 13. 33; Dio Cass. xxxviii. 13. 1 f.; Plut. Cic. 30.

[2826] Cic. Pis. 4. 9; Sest. 25. 55; Ascon. 9, 67; Dio Cass. xxxviii. 13. 2; Liebenam, Röm. Vereinswes. 21; Waltzing, Corp. prof. i. 92.

[2827] Cf. Ferrero, Rome, i. 300.

[2828] P. 117.

[2829] Cic. Sest. 15. 33; p. 471.

[2830] Ascon. 9: Dio Cass. xxxviii. 13. 2; Schol. Bob. 300; cf. Cic. Pis. 4. 9; Sest. 25. 55.

[2831] Suet. Dom. 9. 3: Lange, Röm. Alt. iii. 308.

[2832] Vell. ii. 45. 1; Livy, ep. ciii; Dio Cass. xxxviii. 14. 4; Plut. Cic. 30; cf. Drumann-Gröbe, Gesch. Roms, ii. 208 f.

[2833] P. 371.

[2834] We hear many echoes of this theory in the speeches of Cicero which refer to the Catilinarian conspiracy; cf. Cat. ii. 2. 3; 8. 17; iv. 5. 10 (admitted by C. Caesar); 7. 15; 10. 22.