[123] A special title given to the Ædui on their application for alliance. Cæsar, B. G. i. 33.
[124] The migration of the Helvetii did not actually begin till B.C. 58. Cæsar tells us in the first book of his Commentaries how he stopped it.
[125] Consul B.C. 69, superseded in Crete by Pompey B.C. 65. Triumphed B.C. 62.
[126] Prætor B.C. 63, defended by Cicero in an extant oration.
[127] Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus, consul in B.C. 72. Cicero puns on the name Lentulus from lens (pulse, φακή), and quotes a Greek proverb for things incongruous. See Athenæus, 160 (from the Necuia of Sopater):
Ἴθακος Ὀδυσσεὺς, τὸ ἐκὶ τῇ φακῇ μύρον
πάρεστι· θάρσει, θυμέ.
[128] B.C. 133, the year before the agrarian law of Tiberius Gracchus. The law of Gracchus had not touched the public land in Campania (the old territory of Capua). The object of this clause (which appears repeatedly in those of B.C. 120 and 111, see Bruns, Fontes Iuris, p. 72) is to confine the allotment of ager publicus to such land as had become so subsequently, i.e., to land made "public" principally by the confiscations of Sulla.
[129] That is, he proposed to hypothecate the vectigalia from the new provinces formed by Pompey in the East for five years.
[130] The consulship. The bribery at Afranius's election is asserted in Letter [XXI].
[131] The day of the execution of the Catilinarian conspirators.