[Footnote 177:  Brutus 41. 151, where he plainly ranks him above Scaevola.  The passage is a most interesting one, deserving careful attention.]

[Footnote 178:  The Ninth Philippic:  the passage referred to in the text is 5. 10 foll.]

[Footnote 179:  I omit pro Murena, chs. vii. and xxi., for want of space.  Sulpicius was opposing Cicero in this case, and the latter’s allusions to him are useful specimens of the good breeding spoken of above.]

[Footnote 180:  See Dio Cassius xl. 59; and Cic. ad Fam. iv. 1 and 3, to Sulpicius, with allusions to his consulship.]

[Footnote 181:  Tusc.  Disp. iv. 3. 6.]

[Footnote 182:  The speech in Pisonem; cp. the de Provinciis consularibus, 1-6.  This Piso was the father of Caesar’s wife Calpurnia, who survives in Shakespeare.]

[Footnote 183:  The difficult passage in which Cicero describes the perversion of this character under the influence of Philodemus, has been skilfully translated by Dr. Mahaffy in his Greek World under Roman Sway, p. 126 foll.; and the reader may do well to refer to his whole treatment of the practical result of Epicureanism.]

[Footnote 184:  This chapter is also useful as illustrating the urbanity of manners, for Lucullus and Pompeius were political enemies.]

[Footnote 185:  ad Fam. viii. 5 fin.; viii. 9. 2.]

[Footnote 186:  See the introduction of Asconius to Cicero pro Cornelio, ed.  Clark, p. 58.]

[Footnote 187:  ad Att. v. 21. 11, 13.]

[Footnote 188:  ad Q. frat. ii. 1. 1; ii. 10. 1.]

[Footnote 189:  The letters written immediately after Cicero’s return from exile are the best examples of this paralysis of business, e.g. ad Fam. i. 4; ad Q. F. ii. 3.  See a useful paper by P. Groebe in Klio, vol. v. p. 229.]

[Footnote 190:  This appears from a letter of Oaelius to Cicero in 51.—­ad Fam. viii. 8. 8.]

[Footnote 191:  Asconius in Cornelianum, ed.  Clark, p. 59.  “Ut praetores ex edictis suis perpetuis ius dicerent.”]

[Footnote 192:  All his letters are in the eighth book of those ad Familiares.]

[Footnote 193:  Tacitus, Annals xiii. 2:  “voluptatibus concessis.”]

[Footnote 194:  Quintil. iv. 2. 123.]

[Footnote 195:  Brutus 79. 273.]

[Footnote 196:  e.g. ad Fam. ii. 13. 3.]

[Footnote 197:  Exactly the same combination of real interest in, and frivolous treatment of, politics is to be found in the early letters of Horace Walpole to Sir H. Mann, especially those of the year 1742.]

[Footnote 198:  ad Fam. viii. 14. 3.]

[Footnote 199:  Caesar, Bell.  Civ. iii. 20 foll.]

[Footnote 200:  See above, p. 86; cp. p. 58.]

[Footnote 201:  So for example Servaeus is disqualified, ad Fam. viii. 4.  I.]