Jokes Atticus on the new neighbour that he was going to have:  Atticus lived on the Quirinal Hill, where the temple of Quirinus stood.

The Senate also decreed that Caesar should use the word Imperator as a title prefixed to his name—­Imperator Caius Julius Caesar.  The old practice was to put it after the name, as M. Tullius Cicero Imperator.  The title Imperator prefixed to the name does not occur on the medals of Caesar.  But this decree of the Senate was the origin of the term Imperator being used as a title by the Roman Emperors. (Dion Cassius, 43. c. 44.)]

[Footnote 580:  I do not find what particular honours Cicero proposed.  His correspondence with Atticus during this period shows that he was dissatisfied with the state of affairs, and very uneasy about himself, though, as far as concerned Caesar, he had nothing to fear.]

[Footnote 581:  Carthage was destroyed B.C. 146; and Corinth in the same year by L. Mummius.  Colonies were sent to both places in B.C. 44.  (Dion Cassius, 43. c. 50.) Many Romans were sent to settle in both places. (Strabo, p. 833; Pausanias, ii. 1.) The colonization of Carthage had been attempted by Caius Gracchus. (Life of C. Gracchus, c. 11, notes.)]

[Footnote 582:  In B.C. 45 Caesar was consul for the fourth time and without a colleague.  But he laid down the office before the end of the year, and Quintus Fabius Maximus and C. Trebonius were appointed consuls; the first instance of consuls being appointed for a part of the year, which afterwards became a common practice. (Dion Cassius, 43. c. 46.) The appointment of C. Caninius is mentioned by Cicero (Ad Diversos, vii. 30), who remarks that nobody dined in that consulship, and that the consul was so vigilant that he did not sleep during his term of office:  in fact he was consul for only part of a day.  An inscription records the consulships of this year. (Note to Cicero in the Variorum edition.)]

[Footnote 583:  On the intended Parthian expedition of Caesar, see Dion Cassius, 43. c. 51.]

[Footnote 584:  This design of Caesar is mentioned by Dion Cassius (44. c. 5), Suetonius (Caesar, 441), and Plinius (H.N. iv. 4).]

[Footnote 585:  This scheme is not mentioned by any other author that I can find.  Circaeum, or Circeii, as the Romans called it, is the mountain promontory, now Circello or Circeo, between which and Tarracina lies the southern part of the Pomptine marshes.  The intended cut must therefore run nearly in the direction of the Via Appia and to the west of it.  But considerable cuttings would be required on that more elevated part of the Campagna which lies between the mountains of Alba and the nearest part of the coast.  The basin of the Pomptine marshes is bounded by the offsets of the Alban mountains, the Volscian mountains, and the sea.  In the central part it is only a few feet above the sea-level, and in some parts it is below it.  When a violent south-west