Composita seditione civili Cornelium Dolabellam consularem et triumphalem repetundarum postulavit; absolutoque Rhodum secedere statuit, et ad declinandam invidiam et ut per otium ac requiem Apollonio Moloni clarissimo tunc dicendi magistro {5} operam daret. Huc dum hibernis iam mensibus traicit, circa Pharmacussam insulam a praedonibus captus est, mansitque apud eos, non sine summa indignatione, prope quadraginta dies cum uno medico et cubicularis duobus. Nam comites servosque {10} ceteros initio statim ad expediendas pecunias, quibus redimeretur, dimiserat. Numeratis deinde quinquaginta talentis, expositus in litore non distulit quin e vestigio classe deducta persequeretur abeuntis, ac redactos in potestatem supplicio, quod saepe illis {15} minatus inter iocum fuerat, adficeret. Vastante regiones proximas Mithridate ne desidere in discrimine sociorum videretur, ab Rhodio quo pertenderat, transiit in Asiam, auxiliisque contractis et praefecto regis provincia expulso, nutantes ac dubias civitates {20} retinuit in fide. SUETONIUS, _Divus Iulius_, 4. [Linenotes: 1. +Composita seditione civili+, i.e. after the abortive attempt of Lepidus to make himself master of the state 77 B.C. +C. Dolabellam,+ impeached for illegal extortion during his government of Macedonia. +Repetundarum+ (sc. _pecuniarum_), post-Aug. for _de repetundis (pecuniis)_, used i. of money extorted by an official and to be returned, ii. of money extorted as a bribe. Caesar lost his case, but succeeded in showing that Sulla’s senatorial judges were corrupt. 4. +Apollonio Moloni+, the famous rhetorician, whose pupil Cicero was both at Rome and at Rhodes. Very possibly Caesar took this step by the advice of Cicero. 7. +circa Pharmacussam insulam:+ S.W. of Miletus (= mod. _Farmako_). 8-9. +non sine summa indignatione:+ Plutarch, _Caes._ gives a picturesque account of his adventures as their prisoner. 10. +cubicularis+ (_cubiculum_) = lit. _chamber-servants_. 11. +pecunias ...+ Velleius says that Caesar’s ransom was paid out of public funds. 14. +e vestigio+ (= _statim_) = _immediately_.] +Caesar at Rhodes.+ ‘Caesar, from what we know of his taste and character, could hardly have found the same delight as Cicero in his studies at Rhodes. He nevertheless became one of the greatest orators of his day, and according to some accounts, second only to Cicero. It is characteristic of Caesar, but unfortunate for us, that he never took any pains to collect and preserve his speeches.’ --Warde Fowler. B29 CICERO PROSECUTES VERRES, 70 B.C. _A Roman Citizen maltreated._