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Cicero, Second Prosecution of Verres, III. 89. Cicero adds in a letter, “We may judge, by the sufferings of our own fellow-citizens, of what the inhabitants of the provinces have to endure from the public farmers (publicani). When several tolls were suppressed in Italy, remonstrances were made not so much against the principle of taxation as against abuses in levying it, and the cries of the Romans on the soil of the country tell only too plainly what must be the fate of the allies at the extremity of the empire.” (Letters to Quintus, I. 1, § 33.)

837

Dio Cassius, 86; Fragments, CCCI. edit. Gros.

838

Cicero, On Duties, II. 17; Letters to Quintus, II. 6, § 4. – Plutarch, Brutus, 14.

839

Florus, III. 21.

840

“The name of C. Marius – of that great man who we may justly call the father of the country, the regenerator of our liberty, the saviour of the Republic.” (Cicero, Speech for Rabirius, 10.) – “I have, as your guarantee, your indignation against Sylla.” (Dio Cassius, XXXVI. 17, Oration of Catulus to the Senate.) – “Where can we find a personage (Marius) more serious, more firm, more distinguished by courage, circumspection, conscience?” (Cicero, Speech for Balbus, 25.) – “Not only do we suffer his acts (Sylla’s), but to prevent worse disasters, greater ills, we give them the sanction of public authority.” (Cicero, Second Prosecution of Verres, III. 35.)

841

Plutarch, Cæsar, 6.

842

Plutarch, Pompey, 12.

843

Pompey slew Carbo, Perpenna, and Brutus, the father of the assassin of Cæsar, who had yielded themselves to him: the first had protected his youth and saved his patrimony. (Valerius Maximus, V. iii. v.)

844

Count Franz de Champagny, Les Cæsars, I. p. 50.

845

“It was in his character to show little regard for what he was ambitious to obtain.” (Dio Cassius, XXXVI. 7.) – “Pompey, with a heart as depraved as his face was pure.” (Sallust, Fragments, II. 176.)

846

“At last, when Pompey, haranguing the people for the first time at the gates of the city, in his capacity of consul-designate, came to treat of the matter which seemed to have been most ardently expected, and let it be understood that he would re-establish the power of the tribunes, he was received with applause, and a slight murmur of assent; but when he added that the provinces were devastated and oppressed, the tribunals disgraced, the judges without shame, and that he wished to be watchful of these abuses, and to restore good order, then it was not by a simple murmur, but by unanimous acclamations, that the people testified their desires.” (Cicero, First Prosecution of Verres, 15.)

847

Catulus, when asked his opinion on the re-establishment of the tribunary power, began in these authoritative words: – “The conscript fathers administer justice evilly and scandalously; and if, in the tribunals, they had but answered the expectations of the Roman people, the power of the tribunes would not have been so warmly regretted.” (Cicero, First Prosecution of Verres, 15.)

848

“His enemies had nothing else to reproach him with than the preference which he gave to the people over the Senate.” (Plutarch, Pompey, 20.)

849

“He seconded with all his might those who wished to restore the power of the tribunes.” (Suetonius, Cæsar, 5.)

850

7,100 talents. (Plutarch, Crassus, 1.)

851

Plutarch, Crassus, 2. – Cicero, On Duties, I. 8.

852

Plutarch, Crassus, 7.

853

Plutarch, Crassus, 8.

854

Plutarch, Crassus, 8.

855

Plutarch, Crassus, 1, 16.

856

“Cotta judicandi munus, quod C. Gracchus ereptum Senatui, ad equites, Sylla ab illis ad Senatum transtulerat, æqualiter inter utrumque ordinem partitus est.” (Velleius Paterculus, II. 32.)

857

“Equidem mihi videor pro nostra necessitate, non labore, non opera, non industria defuisse.” (Certainly, I believe I have displayed all the zeal, all the endeavour, all the ability which our kinship demands.) Cæsar, quoted by Aulus Gellius, XIII. 3. – Nonius Marcellus, “On the different significations of words,” under the word Necessitas.

858

Sallust, Fragments, I. 68.

859

Plutarch, Pompey, 21.

860

Plutarch, Cæsar, 5. – Suetonius, Cæsar, 6.

861