[536] M. Marius, to whom Letter [CXXVI] is addressed.
[537] C. Anicius, a senator, seems to have obtained from Ptolemy Auletes, by gift or purchase, his state sedan and its attendants.
[538] The Pompeianum.
[539] An unintellible word, meant apparently for Greek (perhaps arce Ψυρίᾳ, see Att. xvi. 13), is in the text. The most probable conjecture refers it in some way to Arpinum, Cicero's hardy mountain birthplace.
[540] The de Oratore.
[541] The ruin of his country.
[542] For us to walk and converse in. It hardly refers to a supply of vegetables, as some suggest.
[543] A learned freedman of Atticus's.
[544] See p. [250]. Censors were elected this year, but the powers of the censorship had been much curtailed by a law of Clodius in B.C. 58.
[545] Apius Claudius (brother of Clodius) was a candidate for the consulship of B.C. 54.