During the same period Servius Galba, acting as his lieutenant, had, while the season lasted and the army remained a unit, brought to terms the Varagri, dwelling beside Lake Lemannus and beside the Allobroges as far as the Alps:  some he had mastered by force and others by capitulation, so that he was even preparing to winter where he was.  When, however, the majority of the soldiers had departed, some on furloughs because they were not far from Italy, and others elsewhere to their own possessions, the natives took advantage of this fact and unexpectedly attacked him.  Then he was led by despair to a kind of frenzy and suddenly dashing out of the winter camp astounded those attacking him by the strangeness of the move and passing through them gained the heights.  On reaching safety he fought them off and later enslaved them:  he did not winter there, however, but transferred his quarters to the Allobroges.

[-6-] These were the events in Gaul.  Pompey meanwhile had brought about a vote for the recall of Cicero.  The man that he had expelled through the agency of Clodius he now brought back to help him against that very person.  So prone is human nature to change and in such wise do persons select in turn the very opposite things as likely to cause them benefit or injury.  His helpers among the praetors and tribunes were Titus Annius Milo and the rest, who brought the proposition before the populace.  Spinther the consul was zealous[48] for Cicero partly as a favor to Pompey and partly to damage Clodius, by reason of a private enmity which had led him as judge to condemn the man for incest:  Clodius was supported by various men in public office, by Appius Claudius, his brother, who was praetor, and by Nepos the consul who hated Cicero for some reason of his own. [-7-] These parties, accordingly, with the consuls as leaders made more noise than before, and so did the rest in the city, championing one side or the other.  Many disorderly proceedings were the result, chiefest of which was that during the very casting of the vote on the subject Clodius, knowing that the masses would be for Cicero, took the gladiators that his brother held in readiness for the funeral games in honor of Marcus his relative, leaped into the assemblage, wounded many and killed many more.  Consequently no decision was reached and the perpetrator, as the companion of armed champions, was dreaded in general by all:  he then stood for the aedileship, with a view to escaping the penalty for his violence by being elected.  Milo had indicted him but did not succeed in bringing him to court, for the quaestors, by whom the allotment of jurors had to be made, had not been elected, and Nepos forbade the praetor to allow any case before their allotment.  Now it was proper for the aediles to be chosen before the quaestors, and this proved the principal cause of delay. [-8-] Much disturbance was created by the contest over this very point, and at last Milo himself collected some gladiators and