According to Frontinus (Stratag., II. 11), Commius sought an asylum in Great Britain.
556
De Bello Gallico, VIII. 48.
557
Plutarch, Marius, 19.
558
Mémoires de Napoléon I., Revolt of Pavia, VII. 4.
559
For the clearer intelligence of the recapitulation, we have adopted the modern names of the different people of Gaul, although these names are far from answering to their ancient boundaries.
560
Cicero, when proconsul in Cilicia, obtained the sum of twelve millions of sesterii (2,280,000 francs) from the sale of prisoners made at the siege of Pindenissus. (Cicero, Epistolæ ad Atticum, V. 20.)
561
Julian (Cæsares, p. 72, edit. Lasius) makes Cæsar say that he had treated the Helvetii like a philanthropist, and rebuilt their burnt towns.
562
It was probably at this time that the chiefs of Auvergne, and perhaps Vercingetorix himself, as Dio Cassius tells us, came to render homage to the Roman proconsul. (See above, p. 80.)
563
Mommsen, Römische Geschichte, III., p. 291. Berlin, 1861.
564
Plutarch, Pompey, 51, 52.
565
“He soon allowed himself to be enervated by his love for his young wife. Entirely occupied in pleasing her, he passed whole days with her in his country house or in his gardens, and ceased to think of public affairs. Thus even Clodius, then tribune of the people, regarding him no longer with anything but contempt, dared to embark in the rashest enterprises.” (Plutarch, Pompey, 50.)
566
Dio Cassius, XXXVIII. 13.
567
Plutarch, Pompey, 51, 52.
568
Dio Cassius, XXXVIII. 30.
569
Plutarch, Pompey, 48 and 50.
570
“Pompey is going at last to labour on my recall: he only waited for a letter from Cæsar to cause the proposal to be made by one of his partisans.” (Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, III. 18.) – “If Cæsar has abandoned me, if he has joined my enemies, he has been unfaithful to his friendship, and has done me an injury; I ought to have been his enemy, I deny it not; but if Cæsar has interested himself in my restoration, if it be true that you thought it important for me that Cæsar should not be opposed,” &c… (Orat. de Provinciis Consularibus, 18.)
571
“It was then that P. Sextius, the tribune nominate, repaired to Cæsar to interest him in my recall. I say only that if Cæsar were well intentioned towards me, and I believe he was, these proceedings added nothing to his good intentions. He (Sextius) thought that, if they wished to restore concord among the citizens and decide on my recall, they must secure the consent of Cæsar.” (Cicero, Pro Sextio, 33)
572
“Pompey took my brother as witness that all he had done for me he had done by the will of Cæsar.” (Cicero, Epist. Familiar., I. 9.)
573
Cicero, Pro Sextio, 31, et seq.
574
Cicero, Pro Sextio, 31.
575
Plutarch, Pompey, 51. – Cicero, Pro Sextio, 32; De Responsu Haruspic., 23: Pro Milone, 7. – Asconius, Comment. in Orat. pro Milone, p. 47, edit. Orelli.
576
Plutarch, Pompey, 51. – Cicero, Pro Milone, 7. – Asconius, Comment. in Orat. pro Milone, p. 47, edit. Orelli.
577
Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, III. 23. – Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 6.
578
Cicero, Pro Sextio, 33.
579
Cicero, Orat. pro Domo sua, 27; Pro Sextio, 34.
580