[Footnote 746:  See the Life of Caesar, c. 53, 54, 55, and the references in the notes.]

[Footnote 747:  See the Life of Antonius, c. 81.]

[Footnote 748:  See the Life of Caesar, c. 52, and Dion Cassius, 42, c. 57.  This Scipio was unworthy of the name and unequal to the times.]

[Footnote 749:  The Greek writers represent the name in different ways.  Plutarch writes [Greek:  Ituke].  Dion Cassius writes it [Greek:  Outike].  This old Phoenician city was on the coast near the mouth of the river Bagradas; but its supposed remains are some distance inland.  (Shaw’s Travels in Barbary, &c., p. 79, 4to. edition.)]

[Footnote 750:  See the Life of Caesar, c. 53, and Dion Cassius, 43, c. 7.  The battle was fought in B.C. 46.]

[Footnote 751:  The son of Cn.  Octavius, who was consul B.C. 76.  Marcus was Curule AEdile B.C. 50. (Drumann, Octavii, p. 225.)]

[Footnote 752:  He was the son of L. Julius Caesar, consul B.C. 64.  The son was pardoned by Caesar (Bell.  Afric. c. 88, 89).  Dion Cassius (43, c. 12) says that Caesar first brought him to trial, but as he was unwilling to condemn him by his own authority, he privately got him put to death.  The statement of Dion is deficient in precision, incredible by reason of Caesar’s well-known clemency, and the insignificance of Lucius as an enemy, and not altogether reconcilable with other authorities. (Drumann, Julii, p. 125.)]

[Footnote 753:  The Phaedon which contains the last conversation of Socrates, and his death.  The incident of the reading of the Dialogue, and the reflections which it suggested, have been used by Addison in his frigid and bombastic tragedy of Cato.]

[Footnote 754:  Kaltwasser quotes a note of Dacier who cannot conceive how Cato could read so long a Dialogue through twice in so short a time.  It is equally a matter of wonder how any body could know that he read it through once.  The fact that he had the book and was reading it is all that could be known.  Another difficulty that is suggested by Dacier is, that the Dialogue contains the strongest arguments against suicide; but perhaps this difficulty is removed by the suggestion that in one passage it is said that a man should not kill himself till the deity has sent a kind of necessity; and Cato might conceive, as he did conceive, that the necessity had come to him.

The suicide of Cato was a peculiar case and hardly belongs to the more general cases of suicide.  His position, if he had lived under the domination of Caesar, would have been intolerable to a man of his principles; for that he might have lived by Caesar’s grace, if he had chosen, can hardly be doubted notwithstanding Caesar wrote his Anticatones.]

[Footnote 755:  This was P. Licinius Crassus Junianus, a Junius who had been adopted by a Crassus, as the name shows.]