Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 30. – Plutarch, Pompey, 53; Crassus, 18.
655
Précis des Guerres de César, III. 5.
656
Plutarch, Cæsar, 18.
657
Suetonius, Cæsar, 57.
658
“What does Cæsar think of my poem, I pray? He has written to me that he had read the first book, and that he had seen nothing, even in Greek, which ever pleased him more. The rest, up to a certain passage, is less finished: that is his expression. Tell me what it is that displeases him, the matter or the form, and fear not to speak candidly”. (Cicero, Ep. ad Quint., II. 16.)
659
Plutarch, Crassus, 16. – Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 31.
660
Plutarch, Cato, 48; Pompey, 54.
661
Cicero, Epist. Familiar., I. 9.
662
Plutarch, Pompey, 55.
663
Cicero, Epist. ad Quintum, II. 9.
664
The country of the Vaccæi comprised part of old Castile, of the kingdom of Leon, and of the Basque provinces. Clunia, a town of the Celtiberii, was situated near Coruña del Conde.
665
Plutarch, Crassus, 19.
666
Plutarch, Crassus, 19.
667
Plutarch, Cæsar, 24.
668
Plutarch, Cato, 49. – Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 34.
669
Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 35.
670
Plutarch, Cato, 49. – Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 33, 35. – Dio Cassius pretends erroneously that the imperium in the province of Gaul was only continued to Cæsar by a sort of favour, and but for three years, when his partisans murmured at seeing that Crassus and Pompey thought only for themselves. He does not mention the conference of Lucca, which is attested by Suetonius, Plutarch, and Appian. He forgets that Trebonius, Cæsar’s creature, was one of his most devoted lieutenants in the Civil War. We think that the testimony of the other historians is to be preferred.
671
“In my opinion, that which it would have been best for his adversaries to do, would have been to cease a struggle which they are not strong enough to sustain… At the present day the only ambition one can have is to be quiet, and those who governed would be disposed to allow it us, if they found certain people less rigid against their domination.” (Cicero, Epist. Familiar., I. 8, letter to Lentulus.)
672
Plutarch, Crassus, 19.
673
Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 37.
674
Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 38.
675
Cicero, Epist. Familiar., VII. 1.
676
According to the letter from Cicero to Atticus (IV. 13), Crassus had left Rome a little before the 17th of the Calends of December, 699, which answers, according to the concordance established by M. Le Verrier, to the 28th of October, 699.
677
Justin, XLI. 6.
678
Justin, XLII. 4.
679