Cicero, Pro Sextio, 34; De Legibus, III. 19.
581
Cicero, Pro Sextio, 34.
582
Cicero, Pro Sextio, 35. – Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 7. – Plutarch, Pompey, 51.
583
Cicero, Pro Sextio, 35; Orat. prima post Reditum, 5, 6.
584
Cicero, De Officiis, II. 17; Orat. pro Sextio, 39. – Dio Cassius XXXIX. 8.
585
Cicero, Orat. secunda post Reditum ad Senatum, 10; Orat. pro Domo sua, 28; Orat. in Pisonem, 15.
586
We thus see that the power of observing the sky continued to exist in spite of the law Clodia.
587
Cicero, in the passages cited.
588
Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, IV, 1.
589
Asconius, Comment in Orat. Ciceronis pro Milone, p. 48, edit. Orelli.
590
Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 9. – Plutarch, Pompey, 52.
591
Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, IV. 1. – Cicero’s proposal was further amplified by C. Messius, tribune of the people, who demanded for Pompey a fleet, an army, and the authority to dispose of the finances.
592
Plutarch, Pompey, 52. – Cicero, Orat. pro Domo sua, 10.
593
Epist. ad Attic., IV. 2.
594
“I will add that, in the opinion of the public, Clodius is regarded as a victim reserved for Milo.” (Cicero, De Respons. Harusp., 3.) – This oration on the reply of the Aruspices is of May, June, or July, 698. See, also, what he says in his letter to Atticus, of November, 697. (Epist. ad Attic. IV. 3.)
595
Plutarch, Cæsar, 23. —De Bello Gallico, II. 35.
596
“But why, especially on that occasion, should any one be astonished at my conduct or blame it, when I myself have already several times supported propositions which were more honourable for Cæsar than necessary for the state? I voted in his favour fifteen days of prayers; it was enough for the Republic to have decreed to Cæsar the same number of days which Marius had obtained. The gods would have been satisfied, I think, with the same thanksgivings which had been rendered to them in the most important wars. So great a number of days had therefore for its only object to honour Cæsar personally. Ten days of thanksgivings were accorded, for the first time, to Pompey, when the war of Mithridates had been terminated by the death of that prince. I was consul, and, on my report, the number of days usually decreed to the consulars was doubled, after you had heard Pompey’s letter, and been convinced that all the wards were terminated on land and sea. You adopted the proposal I made to you of ordaining ten days of prayers. At present I have admired the virtue and greatness of soul of Cn. Pompey, who, loaded with distinctions such as no other before him had received the like, gave to another more honours than he had obtained himself. Thus, then, those prayers which I voted in favour of Cæsar were accorded to the immortal gods, to the customs of our ancestors, and to the needs of the state; but the flattering terms of the decree, this new distinction, and the extraordinary number of days, it is to the person itself of Cæsar that they were addressed, and they were a homage rendered to his glory.” (Cicero, Orat. pro Provinc. Consular., 10, 11.) (August, A.U.C. 698.)
597
Cicero, Epist. ad Quint., II. 1.
598
Cicero, Epist. ad Quint., II. 1.
599
Cicero, Epist. ad Quint., II. 1.
600
Cicero, Epist. ad Attic., IV. 3.
601
Cicero, Epist. ad Attic., IV. 2 and 3; Epist. ad Quint., II. 1.
602
Atia had wedded in first marriage Octavius, by whom she had a son, who was afterwards Augustus.
603
Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 14.
604
Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 12, 13. – Plutarch, Pompey, 52.
605