[546] Clodius, a revolutionary, like Appuleius Saturninus. The feminine gender is an insult.
[547] Either his poem "On his own Times," or the notes of events which he had promised in Letter [CVIII], p. [231].
[548] A treatise on union (περὶ ὁμονοίας). The rhetorician Dionysius of Magnesia had been with Cicero during his tour in Asia.
[549] L. Egnatius, who owed Q. Cicero money.
[550] C. Aquilius Gallus, Cicero's colleague in the prætorship, and a busy advocate. See p. [13].
[551] Apparently a money-lender.
[552] Perhaps at his sponsalia, as he was married towards the end of the year.
[553] C. Arrianus Evander, a dealer in statues, it seems, from whom Fadius had bought some for Cicero. He offers to let the debt for them (and so the interest) run from any day Cicero pleases.
[554] A well-known connoisseur, mentioned by Horace, Sat. ii. 3, 64, seq.. He seems to have offered to take the bargain off Cicero's hands.
[555] That is, for his palæstra or gymnasium, as he calls it, in his Tusculanum. See Letters [I], [II], [VII].