[15] Letter [CLII], vol. i., pp. [310-324].

[16] Quoted by Flavius Charisius, Ars Gramm. i., p. 126 (ed. Kiel).

[17] Vol. ii., p. 204.

[18] Vol. i., p. [357].

[19] [CLXXVIII]-[CLXXXI]. The date of the letter to P. Sittius ([CLXXVIII]) is not certain.

[20] Vol. i., p. [366].

[21] Letter DXXXIII (Fam. iv. 14), about October, B.C. 46.

[22] Vol. i., p. [226]; Pliny, Ep., vii. 33.

[23] Pomponia, married to Cicero's younger brother Quintus. We shall frequently hear of this unfortunate marriage. Quintus was four years younger than his brother, who had apparently arranged the match, and felt therefore perhaps somewhat responsible for the result (Nep. Att. 5).

[24] Atticus had estates and a villa near Buthrotum in Epirus,—Butrinto in Albania, opposite Corfu.