A History of Roman Classical Literature.

by R. W. Browne

[932]. Brut. 71, 72, 75.

[933]. Præf. to book viii.

[934]. Suet. 56.

[935]. Juv. vi. 338; Suet. 56; Gell. iv. 16; Cic. Div. ii. 9.

[936]. Ad Att. xii. 40, 41, 44, 45; xiii. 37, 40, 48, 50.

[937]. Cic. Brut. 72.

[938]. See Nieb. L. R. H. xcv.; Suet. 66; Cic. ad Fam. ix. 16.

[939]. Meyer’s Lat. Anthol. 68, 69, 70.

[940]. A. Gellius tells us (xvii. 9) that he was the author of Letters to Oppius, written in cipher, of which he gives the following interesting description:—“Erat conventum inter eos clandestinum de commutando situ literarum ut inscriptio quidem alia alius locum et nomen teneret sed in legendo locus cuique suus et potestas restitueretur.” Suetonius (Vit. Cæs. 56) describes in the same way the nature of the cipher which he used, and illustrates it by saying that he used to put d for a, and so forth.

[941]. Matth. H. L.