[231] XLIX. Piso, as having been attacked by him, when he was on, etc.--_Piso oppugnatus in judicio repetundarum propter cujusdam Transpadani supplicium injustum_. Such is the reading and punctuation of Cortius. Some editions insert _pecuniarum_ before _repetundarum_, and some a comma after it. I have interpreted the passage in conformity with the explanation of Kritzius, which seems to me the most judicious that has been offered. _Oppugnatus_, says he, is equivalent to _gravitur vexatus_, or violently assailed; and Piso was thus assailed by Caesar on account of his unjust execution of the Gaul; the words _in judicio repetundarum_ merely mark the time when Caesar's attack was made. While he was on his trial for one thing, he was attacked by Caesar for another. Gerlach, observing that the words _in judicio_ are wanting in one MS., would emit them, and make _oppugnatus_ govern _pecuniarum repetundarum_, as if it were _accusatus_; a change which would certainly not improve the passage. The Galli Transpadani seem to have been much attached to Caesar; see Cic. Ep. ad Att., v. 2; ad Fam. xvi. 12. [232] Comparatively a youth--_Adolescentalo_. Caesar was then in the thirty-third, or, as some say, the thirty-seventh year of his age. See the note on this word, c. 3. [233] By magnificent exhibitions in public--_Publicè maximis muneribus_. Shows of gladiators. [234] L. In various directions throughout the city--_Variis itineribus --in vicis_. Going hither and thither through the streets. [235] Slaves--_Familiam_. "Servos suos, qui proprie _familia_," Cortius. _Familia_ is a number of _famuli_. [236] A full senate, however, had but a short time before, etc.--The senate had already decreed that they were enemies to their country; Cicero now calls a meeting to ascertain what sentence should be passed on them. [237] On this occasion--moved--_Tunc--decreverat_. The _tunc_ (or, as most editors have it, _tum_) must be referred to the second meeting or the senate, for it does not appear that any proposal concerning the punishment of the prisoners was made at the first meeting. There would be no doubt on this point, were it not for the pluperfect tense, _decreverat_. I have translated it as the perfect. We must suppose that Sallust had his thoughts on Caesar's speech, which was to follow, and signifies that all this business _had been done_ before Caesar addressed the house. Kritzius thinks that the pluperfect was referred by Sallust, not to Caesar's speech, but to the decree of the senate which was finally made; but this is surely a less satisfactory method of settling the matter. Sallust often uses the pluperfect, where his reader would expect the perfect; see, for instance, _concusserat_, at the beginning of c. 24.