[11] To Atticus, iv. 3.
[12] For the details of this story see Dion Cassius, lib. xxxix. capp. 12-16. Compare Cicero ad Familiares, lib. i. Epist. 1-2. Curious subterranean influences seem to have been at work to save the Senate from the infamy of restoring Ptolemy. Verses were discovered in the Sibylline Books directing that if an Egyptian king came to Rome as a suppliant, he was to be entertained hospitably, but was to have no active help. Perhaps Cicero was concerned in this.
[13] Ad Quintum Fratrem, ii. 3.
[14] “Tito Annio devota et constituta hostia esse videtur.”—De Haruspicum responsis.
[15] Ibid.
[16] “Otium cum dignitate.”
[17] Abridged from the Oratio pro Sextio.
[18] “Me germanum asinum fuisse.” Perhaps “own brother to an ass” would be a more proper rendering.
[19] To Atticus, iv. 5.
[20] Clodius.