[Footnote 335:  Plautius Hypsaeus was not a consular.  He had been the quaestor of Pompeius.  He and Scipio had been candidates for the consulship this year, and were both charged with bribery. (Dion Cassius, 40, c. 53.) Hypsaeus was convicted.]

[Footnote 336:  See the Life of Caesar, c. 29.  Pompeius had lent Caesar two legions (c. 52).  Compare Dion Cassius, 40. c. 65, and Appianus, Civil Wars, ii. 29.  The illness of Pompeius and the return of the legions from Gaul took place in the year B.C. 50.  Appius Claudius (c. 57) was sent by the Senate to conduct the legions from Gaul.  Dion Cassius (40. c. 65) says that Pompeius had lent Caesar only one legion, but that Caesar had to give up another also, inasmuch as Pompeius obtained an order of the Senate that both he and Caesar should give a legion to Bibulus, who was in Syria, for the Parthian war. (Appianus, Civil Wars, ii. 29; Bell.  Gall. viii. 54.) Thus Pompeius in effect gave up nothing, but Caesar parted with two legions.  The legions were not sent to Syria, but both wintered in Capua.  The consul C. Claudius Marcellus (B.C. 50) gave both these legions to Pompeius.]

[Footnote 337:  L. AEmilius Paulus was consul B.C. 50, with C. Claudius Marcellus a violent opponent of Caesar.  He built the Basilica Pauli (Appianus, Civil Wars, ii. 26).  Basilica is a Greek word ([Greek:  basilike] ); a basilica was used as a court of law, and a place of business for merchants.  The form of a Roman basilica is known from the description of Vitruvius (v. 1), the ground-plan of two Basilicae at Rome, and that of Pompeii which is in better preservation.  Some of the great Roman churches are called Basilicae, and in their construction bear some resemblance to the antient Basilicae. (’Penny Cyclopaedia,’ Basilica.)]

[Footnote 338:  C. Scribonius Curio.  Compare the Life of M. Antonius, c. 2.  He was a man of ability, but extravagant in his habits (Dion Cassius, 40. c. 60):—­

    “Momentumque fuit mutatus Curio rerum,
    Gallorum captus spoliis et Caesaris auro.”—­

    Lucanus, Pharsalia, iv. 819

As to the vote on the proposition of Curio, Appianus (Civil Wars, ii. 30) agrees with Plutarch.  Dion Cassius (40. c. 64:  and 41. c. 2) gives a different account of this transaction.]

[Footnote 339:  C. Claudius Marcellus and L. Cornelius Lentulus Crus were consuls for the year B.C. 49, in which the war broke out, This Marcellus was the cousin of the consul Marcellus of the year B.C. 50, who (Appianus, Civil Wars, ii. 30) presented Pompeius with a sword when he commissioned him to fight against Caesar.  Plutarch appears (c. 58, 59) to mean the same Marcellus; but he has confounded them.  The Marcellus of c. 58 is the consul of B.C. 49; and the Marcellus of c. 59 is the consul of B.C. 50, according to Dion Cassius (40. c. 66 41. c. 1, &c.) and Appianus.]

[Footnote 340:  Cicero returned from his government of Cilicia B.C. 50.]