[Footnote 22:  Adopting Reiske’s reading, [Greek:  tinas].]

[Footnote 23:  Compare here Mommsen (Staatsrecht, 23, 644, 2 or 23, 663, 3), who says that since the only objection to be found with this arrangement was that since the praetor urbanus could not himself conduct the comitia, he ought not properly to have empowered others to do so.]

[Footnote 24:  M.  Juventius Laterensis.]

[Footnote 25:  This refers to the latter half of chapter 42, where Caesar binds his soldiers by oath never to fight against any of their former comrades.]

[Footnote 26:  [Greek:  pragmaton] here is somewhat uncertain and might give the sense “as a result of the troubles in which they had been involved, one with another.”  Sturz and Wagner appear to have viewed it in that light:  Boissee and friends consulted by the translator choose the meaning found in the text above.]

[Footnote 27:  The name of this freedman as given by Appian (Civil Wars, IV, 44) is Philemon; but Suetonius (Life of Augustus, chapter 27) agrees with Dio in writing Philopoemen.]

[Footnote 28:  In B.C. 208 the Ludi Apollinares were set for July thirteenth, but by the year B.C. 190 they occupied three days, and in B.C. 42 the entire period of the sixth to the thirteenth of July was allotted to their celebration.  Now Caesar’s birthday fell on July twelfth and the day before that, July eleventh, would have conflicted quite as much with the festival of Apollo.  Hence this expression “the previous day” must mean July fifth. (See Fowler’s Roman Festivals, p. 174.)]

[Footnote 29:  There seems to be an error here made either by Dio or by some scribe in the course of the ages.  For, according to many reliable authorities (Plutarch, Life of Brutus, chapter 21; Appian, Civil Wars, Book Three, chapter 23; Cicero, Philippics, II, 13, 31, and X, 3, 7; id., Letters to Atticus, Book Fifteen, letters 11 and 12), it was Brutus and not Cassius who was praetor urbanus and had the games given in his absence.  Therefore the true account, though not necessarily the true reading would say that “Brutus was praetor urbanus,” and (below) that he “lingered in Campania with Cassius.”

See also Cobet, Mnesmosyne, VII, p. 22.]

[Footnote 30:  That this is the right form of the name is proved by the evidence of coins, etc.  In Caesar’s Civil War, Book Three, chapter 4, the same person is meant when it is said that Tarcondarius Castor and Dorylaus furnished Pompey with soldiers.]

[Footnote 31:  See Book Thirty-six, chapter 2 (end).]

[Footnote 32:  Q.  Marcius Crispus. (The MSS. give the form Marcus, but the identity of this commander is made certain by Cicero, Philippics, XI, 12, 30, and several other passages.)]

[Footnote 33:  I. e., “The Springs,”—­a primitive name for Philippi itself.]

[Footnote 34:  Iuppiter Latiaris was the protecting deity of Latium, and his festival is practically identical with the Feriae Latinae.  Roscher (II, col. 688) thinks that Dio has here confused the praefectus urbi with a special official (dictator feriarum Latinarum causa) appointed when the consuls were unable to attend.  Compare Book Thirty-nine, chapter 30, where our historian does not commit himself to any definite name for this magistrate.]