[10] It was certainly not written, as Sommerbrodt assumes, in the intervals of composing the De Divinatione. The words in 2, 7 of that work—quoniam de re publica consuli coepti sumus etc.—point to the end of September or beginning of October, 44, when Cicero returned to Rome and began to compose his Philippic orations.

[11] § [1].

[12] It is perhaps not a mere accident that the prowess of L. Brutus in liberanda patria is mentioned in § [75]. There may be a reference to the latest Brutus who had freed his country.

[13] In March, 45.

[14] § [12].

[15] § [84].

[16] See p. [iii.] above.

[17] In the notes exact references will be given to the places in the original where the other passages mentioned may be found.

[18] Particularly the first book of the Tusculan Disputations, the De Republica, and the Laelius.

[19] See [4], below.