[596] At Luca in the year B.C. 56.
[597] Comitia habendi causa. No such had been appointed since B.C. 202, and the irregular dictatorship of Sulla in B.C. 82 made the idea distasteful. Pompey was understood to wish for the appointment, now and later on. See pp. [326], [335].
[598] τοιαῦθ' ὁ τλήμων πόλεμος ἐξεργάζεται (Eur. Supp. 119).
[599] For the nature of this compact, see p. [300].
[600] That is, as an interlocutor in the dialogue "On the Republic," which Cicero was engaged in writing.
[601] A law re-enacting the lex Didia, and enacting under penalties that no law was to be brought forward without due publication beforehand.
[602] A law which enabled the magistrates and tribunes to stop legislation by obnuntiatio.
[603] Procilius had been condemned de vi (p. [280]). The rumours, I suppose, were as to the jury having been corrupted.
[604] The consul L. Domitius Ahenobarbus and C. Lucceius Hirrus, the latter a warm partisan of Pompey, who was supposed to be agitating for a dictatorship.
[605] L. Æmilius Paullus (consul B.C. 50) restored the basilica built by his ancestor M. Æmilius Lepidus in B.C. 179, and appears to have added largely to it, or even built a new one.