after Caesar’s death.  But not only does it nowhere find any sort of even indirect confirmation, but it is even expressly pronounced false by the contemporary Cicero (De Div. ii. 54, 119) and reported by the later historians, especially by Suetonius (79) and Dio (xliv. 15) merely as a rumour which they are far from wishing to guarantee; and it is under such circumstances no better accredited by the fact of Plutarch (Caes. 60, 64; Brut. 10) and Appian (B.  C. ii. 110) repeating it after their wont, the former by way of anecdote, the latter by way of causal explanation.  But the story is not merely unattested; it is also intrinsically impossible.  Even leaving out of account that Caesar had too much intellect and too much political tact to decide important questions of state after the oligarchic fashion by a stroke of the oracle-machinery, he could never think of thus formally and legally splitting up the state which he wished to reduce to a level.

19.  II.  III.  Union of the Plebeians

20.  II.  I. The New Community

21.  IV.  X. Abolition of the Censorial Supervision of the Senate

22.  According to the probable calculation formerly assumed (iv. 113), this would yield an average aggregate number of from 1000 to 1200 senators.

23.  This certainly had reference merely to the elections for the years 711 and 712 (Staatsrecht, ii. a 730); but the arrangement was doubtless meant to become permanent.

24.  I. V. The Senate as State-Council, ii.  I. Senate

25.  V. X. Pacification of Alexandria

26.  V. VIII.  Changes in the Arrangement of Magistracies and the Jury-System

27.  I. V. The King

28.  Hence accordingly the cautious turns of expression on the mention of these magistracies in Caesar’s laws; -cum censor aliusve quis magistratus Romae populi censum aget (L.  Jul. mun. l. 144); praetor isve quei Romae iure deicundo praerit (L.  Rubr. often); quaestor urbanus queive aerario praerit- (L.  Jul. mun. l. 37 et al.).

29.  V. III.  New Arrangement as to Jurymen

30.  V. VIII.  And in the Courts

31. -Plura enim multo-, says Cicero in his treatise De Oratore (ii. 42, 178), primarily with reference to criminal trials, -homines iudicant odio aut amore aut cupiditate aut iracundia aut dolore aut laetitia aut spe aut timore aut errore aut aliqua permotione mentis, quam veritate aut praescripto aut iuris norma aliqua aut iudicii formula aut legibus-.  On this accordingly are founded the further instructions which he gives for advocates entering, on their profession.

32.  V. VIII.  And in the Courts

33.  V. VII.  Macedonia ff.

34.  V. VII.  The Gallic Plan of War

35.  V. III.  Overthrow of the Senatorial Rule, and New Power of Pompeius

36.  With the nomination of a part of the military tribunes by the burgesses (iii.  XI.  Election of Officers in the Comitia) Caesar—­ in this also a democrat—­did not meddle.