[476] On some alleged informality the feriæ Latinæ were held a second time (instauratæ), really, Cicero implies, in order to bar some additional days for public business, and prevent legislation, as later on the election of Pompey and Crassus was prevented (Dio, xxxix. 30).
[477] At the end of B.C. 57, or the beginning of 56, fifteen days of supplicatio were decreed in consequence of Cæsar's success in Gaul (Cæs. B. G. ii. 35).
[478] Gaius Cato the tribune, who proposed to recall Lentulus.
[479] A scriba or public clerk, and a client of the patrician Clodii.
[480] Unknown. Cicero's words seem to imply that he nearly got convicted, but not quite.
[481] In B.C. 357 a "college" was established for celebrating the ludi Capitolini, in celebration of the failure of the Gauls to take it. It consisted of men living on the Capitoline (Livy, v. 50). The Mercuriales were a "college" or company of merchants who celebrated the fête of the consecration of the temple of Mercury (B.C., 495) on the Ides of May (Livy, ii. 27; Ov. F. v. 669; C. I. L. i. p. 206).
[482] It was on this journey that Pompey visited Luca tomeet Cæsar and Crassus.
[483] The name of a property of Quintus at Arpinum.
[484] Another property of Quintus near Mintumæ.