50.  This is usually sought at Capdenac not far from Figeac; Goler has recently declared himself in favour of Luzech to the west of Cahors, a site which had been previously suggested.

51.  This indeed, as may readily be conceived, is not recorded by Caesar himself, but an intelligible hint on this subject is given by Sallust (Hist. i. 9 Kritz), although he too wrote as a partisan of Caesar.  Further proofs are furnished by the coins.

52.  Thus we read on a -semis- which a Vergobretus of the Lexovii (Lisieux, dep.  Calvados) caused to be struck, the following inscription:  -Cisiambos Cattos vercobreto; simissos (sic) publicos Lixovio-.  The often scarcely legible writing and the incredibly wretched stamping of these coins are in excellent harmony with their stammering Latin.

53.  V. VII.  Caesar and Ariovistus

54.  V. VII.  The Helvetii Sent Back to Their Original Abodes

55.  V. VII.  Beginning of the Struggle

56.  IV.  V. Taurisci

Notes for Chapter VIII

1.  This is the meaning of -cantorum convitio contiones celebrare-(Cic. pro Sest. 55, 118).

2.  V. Vi.  Clodius

3.  IV.  V. The Victory and the Parties

4.  Cato was not yet in Rome when Cicero spoke on 11th March 698 in favour of Sestius (Pro Sest. 28, 60) and when the discussion took place in the senate in consequence of the resolutions of Luca respecting Caesar’s legions (Plut.  Caes. 21); it is not till the discussions at the beginning of 699 that we find him once more busy, and, as he travelled in winter (Plut.  Cato Min. 38), he thus returned to Rome in the end of 698.  He cannot therefore, as has been mistakenly inferred from Asconius (p. 35, 53), have defended Milo in Feb. 698.

5. -Me asinum germanum fuisse- (Ad Att. iv. 5, 3).

6.  This palinode is the still extant oration on the Provinces to be assigned to the consuls of 699.  It was delivered in the end of May 698.  The pieces contrasting with it are the orations for Sestius and against Vatinius and that upon the opinion of the Etruscan soothsayers, dating from the months of March and April, in which the aristocratic regime is glorified to the best of his ability and Caesar in particular is treated in a very cavalier tone.  It was but reasonable that Cicero should, as he himself confesses (Ad Att. iv. 5, 1), be ashamed to transmit even to intimate friends that attestation of his resumed allegiance.

7.  This is not stated by our authorities.  But the view that Caesar levied no soldiers at all from the Latin communities, that is to say from by far the greater part of his province, is in itself utterly incredible, and is directly refuted by the fact that the opposition-party slightingly designates the force levied by Caesar as “for the most part natives of the Transpadane colonies” (Caes.  B. C. iii. 87); for here the Latin colonies of Strabo