[526] Son of the dictator Sulla, who is known to have brought back from Athens a famous Aristotelian library.
[527] Pompey and Crassus, the consuls.
[528] Pompey, as the context shews. In the next clause ambulatio has a double meaning of physical walking and of a political course of conduct.
[529] Philotimus, a freedman of Terentia's, seems to have been engaged at Rome in the reconstruction of Cicero's house. The Spartan bath (Laconicum) was a hot-air bath, like a Turkish bath.
[530] The tribunes had no veto against the censors, they could only hinder them by the indirect method of obnuntiatio, declaring that the omens were bad, and so preventing business.
[531] This also is Phocylides's.
[532] In Pompey's new theatre.
[533] Some bore, unknown to us.
[534] The two boys seem to be receiving their education together at this time in the house of Quintus.
[535] It is all but impossible to explain these words. Some editors transfer them to the sentence after de Republica. But they are scarcely more in place there. The Greek quotation is not known.