[139] Σπάρτην ἔλαχες κείνην κοσμεῖ. "Sparta is your lot, do it credit," a line of Euripides which had become proverbial.
[140] οἱ μὲν παρ' οὐδέν εἰσι, τοῖς δ' οὐδεν μέλει. Rhinton, a dramatist, circa B.C. 320-280 (of Tarentum or Syracuse).
[141] See pp. [52], [56], [65].
[143] The lex Cincia (B.C. 204) forbade the taking of presents for acting as advocate in law courts.
[144] Nep. Att. c. 18.
[145] Atticus seems to have seen a copy belonging to some one else at Corfu. Cicero explains that he had kept back Atticus's copy for revision.
[146] Cicero evidently intends Atticus to act as a publisher. His librarii will make copies. See p. 32, [note 1].
[147] The passage in brackets is believed by some, not on very good grounds, to be spurious. Otho is L. Roscius Otho, the author of the law as to the seats in the theatre of the equites. The "proscribed" are those proscribed by Sulla, their sons being forbidden to hold office, a disability which Cicero maintained for fear of civil disturbances. See in Pis. §§ 4-5.
[148] Pulchellus, i.e., P. Clodius Pulcher, the diminutive of contempt.