[5] Yet the announcement of the birth of his son (p. [16]) and of the dangerous confinement of Tullia (vol. ii., p. 403) are almost equally brief.
[6] See [Att. ii. 1], vol. i., p. [62]; Plut. Cic. 13; Cic. in Pis. § 4.
[7] Die Entstchungsgeschichte der catilinarischen Verschwörung, by Dr. Constantin John, 1876. I am still of opinion that Plutarch's statement can be strongly supported.
[8] Cæsar said, οὺ μὴν καὶ προσήκειν ἐπὶ τοῐς παρεληλυθόσι τοιοῠτόν τινα νόμον συγγράφεσθαι (Dio, xxxviii. 17).
[9] "The man who did not so much as raise me up, when I threw myself at his feet."—Att. x. 4 (vol. ii., p. 362). Similar allusions to Pompey's conduct to him on the occasion often occur.
[11] See vol. i., pp. [129], [138]; cp. pro Planc. §§ 95-96.
[12] [Fam. i. 9, 15] (vol. i., p. [316]).
[13] Letter [CVII], vol. i., pp. [219], [220].
[14] Ever since its capture in the second Punic War, Capua had ceased to have any corporate existence, and its territory had been ager publicus, let out to tenants (aratores). Cæsar had restored its corporate existence by making it a colonia, and much of the land had been allotted to veterans of his own and Pompey's armies. The state thus lost the rent of the land, one of the few sources of revenue from Italy now drawn by the exchequer of Rome.