[606] These works seem to have been contemplated by the censors and senate, and Cicero speaks of himself and Oppius as doing them because they supported the measure. They were partly carried out by Cæsar but not completed till the time of Augustus.
[607] Because the tribunes stopped it—the formal act at the end of the Censor's office—by obnuntiationes.
[608] The name of the law mentioned here is uncertain. The lex Cincia de munuibus forbade advocates taking fees for pleading.
[609] M. Nonius Sufenas and C. Cato were charged with bribery and other illegal proceedings during their tribuneship: Procilius for riot (de vi) when some citizen was killed.
[610] Q. Hortensius, the great orator.
[611] This refers to the famous waterfall of Terni. An artificial cutting drained the River Velinus (which otherwise covered the high valley as a lake) into the Nar, which is in the valley below. What was good for the people of Reate was, of course, dangerous for the people of Interamna living below. M. Curius Dentatus was consul B.C. 290.
[612] σἠμα δἐ τοι ἐρέω (Hom. Il. xxiii. 326).
[613] Because Atticus lent money.
[614] For the death (in September) of his daughter Iulia, wife of Pompey.
[615] A nickname, it is said, of Vacerra (perhaps because he stuttered), who had been a teacher of Trebatius.