[Footnote 677:  Either C. Scribonius Curio who was consul B.C. 76, or his son the tribune, an adherent of Caesar; but probably the father is meant.]

[Footnote 678:  See the Life of Marius, c. 17.]

[Footnote 679:  Cato’s quaestorship was in the year B.C. 65.]

[Footnote 680:  Lutatius Catulus, censor B.C. 65, was the son of Catulus who with Marius defeated the Cimbri at Vercellae B.C. 101.  (Life of Marius, c. 25.)]

[Footnote 681:  This pasange, which has been supposed by some translators to mean that Catulus ran the risk of being degraded from his office, is correctly translated and explained by Kaltwasser.  Cato hinted that the officers of the Court would turn Catulus out, if he continued to act as he did.  Plutarch has told the same story in his treatise [Greek:  peri dusopias], De Vitioso Pudore c. 13, to which Kaltwasser refers.]

[Footnote 682:  He may be C. Claudius Marcellus afterwards consul B.C. 50, or his cousin of the same name who was consul B.C. 49.]

[Footnote 683:  The parentage of Terentia, Cicero’s wife, is unknown.  The mother of Terentia must have married a Fabius, by whom she had this Fabia, the half sister of Terentia.  Fabia was a woman of rank.  Though a vestal virgin, she did not escape scandal, for she was tried B.C. 73 for sexual intercourse with Catilina:  Fabia was acquitted (Drumann, Geschichte Roms, v. 392).

There is a mistake in the text:  “charges” (p. 25) is a misprint, and should be “changes;” in place of “Cicero’s wide, he was in great danger, but he involved Clodius,” it should be “Cicero’s wife, and she was in great danger, he involved Clodius.”

Therefore in place of “he was,” line 10 from bottom, read “and she was;” and in the same line omit “but.”  In line 13 from the bottom read “changes” for “charges.”]

[Footnote 684:  Probably the name is corrupted.  The expression is attributed to Cato, in the Life of Lucullus, c. 40.]

[Footnote 685:  Q. Metellus Nepos was serving under Pompeius in Asia in B.C. 64.  He came to Rome in B.C. 63 to be a candidate for the tribuneship.]

[Footnote 686:  D. Junius Silanus, who was consul with Licinius Murena, B.C. 62, was now the husbaud of Servilia, who had been the wife of D. Junius Brutus.]

[Footnote 687:  He was the son of L. Licinius Murena, who served under Sulla in Greece.  The son served under his father in B.C. 83 against Mithridates.  After the consular election in B.C. 63 he was prosecuted for bribery (ambitus).  Cicero’s speech in defence of Murena is extant.]

[Footnote 688:  The affair of Catiline is spoken of in the Life of Caesar, c. 17, and in the Life of Cicero, c. 10, &c.]

[Footnote 689:  This Servilia was now the wife of Silanus the consul.  Lucullus the husband of the other Servilia had his triumph in the year of Cicero’s consulship B.C. 63 (Life of Lucullus, c. 37).  He was probably the husband of Servilia at this time.]