[Footnote 114: Cicero, in his defence of Rabirius Postumus, 2.4, says that Rabirius' father magnas partes habuit publicorum. One Aufidius (Val. Max. vi. 9. 7) "Asiatici publici exiguam admodum particulam habuit." Cp. Cic in Vat. 12. 29]
[Footnote 115: This is the view of Deloume, Les Manieurs d'argent à
Rome, p. 119 foll.]
[Footnote 116: Marq. Staatsverwaltung, ii. p.291]
[Footnote 117: Deloume, Manieurs d'argent, p. 317 foll.]
[Footnote 118: pro lege Manilia, 7. 18.]
[Footnote 119: Ib. 7. 19.]
[Footnote 120: ad Att. i. 17. 9. Crassus, no doubt a large shareholder, urged them on.]
[Footnote 121: In a letter to his brother, then governor of this province, Cicero contemplates the possibility of contracts being taken at a loss (ad Q.F. i. 1. 33), "publicis male redemptis." And in a letter of introduction in 46, he alludes to heavy losses suffered in this way, ad Fam. xiii. 10.]
[Footnote 122: ad Att. v. 16. 2.]
[Footnote 123: Ib. vi. 1. 16.]