[Footnote 461:  This circumstance is mentioned by Sallustius (Catilina, 49), apparently as having happened when Caesar was leaving the Senate, after one of the debates previous to that on which it was determined to put the conspirators to death.  Sallustius mentions Catulus and C. Piso as the instigators.  He also observes that they had tried to prevail on Cicero to criminate Caesar by false testimony. (See Drumann, Tullii, Sec. 40, p. 531.)]

[Footnote 462:  C. Scribonius Curio, consul B.C. 76, father of the Curio mentioned in the Life of Pompeius, c. 58, who was a tribune B.C. 50.]

[Footnote 463:  Cicero wrote his book on his Consulship B.C. 60, in which year Caesar was elected consul, and it was published at that time.  Caesar was then rising in power, and Cicero was humbled.  It would be as well for him to say nothing on this matter which Plutarch alludes to (Ad Attic. ii. 1).

Cicero wrote first a prose work on his consulship in Greek (Ad Attic. i. 19), and also a poem in three books in Latin hexameters (Ad Attic. ii. 3).]

[Footnote 464:  Attic drachmae, as usual with Plutarch, when he omits the denomination of the money.  In his Life of Cato (c. 26) Plutarch estimates the sum at 1250 talents.  This impolitic measure of Cato tended to increase an evil that had long been growing in Rome, the existence of a large body of poor who looked to the public treasury for part of their maintenance. (See the note on the Life of Caius Gracchus, c. 5.)]

[Footnote 465:  Caesar was Praetor B.C. 62.  He was Praetor designatus in December B.C. 63, when he delivered his speech on the punishment of Catiline’s associates.]

[Footnote 466:  Some notice of this man is contained in the Life of Lucullus, c. 34, 38, and the Life of Cicero, c. 29.  The affair of the Bona Dea, which made a great noise in Rome, is told very fully in Cicero’s letters to Atticus (i. 12, &c.), which were written at the time.

The feast of the Bona Dea was celebrated on the first of May, in the house of the Consul or of the Praetor Urbanus.  There is some further information about it in Plutarch’s Romanae Quaestiones (ed.  Wyttenbach, vol. ii.).  According to Cicero (De Haruspicum Responsis, c. 17), the real name of the goddess was unknown to the men; and Dacier considers it much to the credit of the Roman ladies that they kept the secret so well.  For this ingenious remark I am indebted to Kaltwasser’s citation of Dacier; I have not had curiosity enough to look at Dacier’s notes.]

[Footnote 467:  The divorce of Pompeia is mentioned by Cicero (Ad Attic. i. 13).]

[Footnote 468:  Clodius was tried B.C. 61, and acquitted by a corrupt jury (judices). (See Cicero, Ad Attic. i. 16.) Kaltwasser appears to me to have mistaken this passage.  The judices voted by ballot, which had been the practice in Rome in such trials since the passing of the Lex Cassia B.C. 137.  Drumanu remarks (Geschichte Roms, Claudii, p. 214, note) that Plutarch has confounded the various parts of the procedure at the trial; and it may be so.  See the Life of Cicero, c. 29.  There is a dispute as to the meaning of the term Judicia Populi, to which kind of Judicia the Lex Cassia applied. (Orelli, Onomasticon, Index Legum, p. 279.)]