[456] Milo impeached by Clodius before the comitia tributa for his employment of gladiators. Dio (xxxix. 18) says that Clodius thus impeached Milo, not with any hope of securing his conviction against the powerful support of Cicero and Pompey, but to get the chance of insulting these latter. Marcellus was one of the candidates for the ædileship with Clodius. See Letter [XCI].
[457] In B.C. 129, after making a speech in favour of the claims of the Italians for exemption from the agrarian law of Gracchus, Scipio Æmilianus, the younger Africanus, was found dead in his bed. The common report was that he had been assassinated by Carbo, or with his privity, but it was never proved (see de Orat. ii. § 170). Cicero does not here assume the truth of the story, he merely repeats Pompey's words.
[458] M. Tullius Albinovanus. It was on this charge de vi that Cicero defended Sestius in the extant speech. The charge of bribery does not appear to have been proceeded with.
[459] Adlegatos, probably commissioners named to receive and report on a deposition of an informer before the senate acted.
[460] L. Calpurnius Piso Bestia, a candidate in the last election of ædiles.
[461] Cn. Domitius Calvinus, consul B.C. 53. In the Civil War he sided with Pompey, and perished at sea after Thapsus (B.C. 46).
[462] Ad lucum Pisonis. The place is not known, but there is not sufficient reason for the change to ad lacum Pisonis, a place equally unknown.
[463] A part of Rome on the slope of the Mons Oppius.
[464] I.e., get out of it as soon as you can.
[465] Ptolemy was at Ephesus.