[719] Appian, _Civil Wars_, I. 95.--Velleius Paterculus, II. 28. [720] Appian, _Civil Wars_, I. 95. [721] Strabo, V. iv. 207. [722] Dio Cassius, XXXIV. 137, § 1. [723] Dio Cassius, XXXIV. 137. [724] Valerius Maximus, IX. ii. 1. [725] Plutarch, _Cato of Utica_, 21. [726] Appian, _Civil Wars_, I. 96.--Titus Livius, _Epitome_, LXXXIX. [727] Appian, I. 100.--Velleius Paterculus, II. 31.--The _auxilium_ was the protection accorded by the tribune of the people to whoever claimed it. [728] Appian, _Civil Wars_, I. 100 _et seq._ [729] Appian, _Civil Wars_, I. (See, on an inscription raised by the freedmen in honour of the dictator, and which has been discovered in Italy, Mommsen, _Inscriptiones Latinæ Antiquissimæ_, p. 168.) [730] Titus Livius, _Epitome_, LXXXIX. [731] Appian, _Civil Wars_, I. 100. [732] Appian, _Civil Wars_, I. 100.--In 574, the age required for the different magistracies had already been fixed. (Titus Livius, XL. 44.) [733] Appian, _Civil Wars_, I. 101.--Titus Livius, _Epitome_, LXXXIX. [734] Aulus Gellius, II. 24. [735] Cicero, _Familiar Letters_, III. 6, 8, 10. [736] Titus Livius, _Epitome_, LXXXIX.--Tacitus, _Annals_, XI. 22.--Aurelius Victor, _Illustrious Men_, lxxv. [737] Cicero, _De Oratore_, II. 39.--“A law which, among the ancients, embraced different objects: treasons in the army, seditions at Rome, diminution of the majesty of the Roman people by the bad administration of a magistrate.” (Tacitus, _Annals_, I. 72.) [738] Appian, _Civil Wars_, I. 104. [739] He waited the death of the dictator to rob the treasury of a sum which he owed to the State. (Plutarch, _Sylla_, 46.) [740] Appian, _Civil Wars_, I. 106. [741] Sylla had taken the name of _Fortunate_ (_Felix_). (Mommsen, _Inscriptiones Latinæ Antiquissimæ_, p. 168), or of _Faustus_, according to Velleius Paterculus. [742] “It cannot be denied that Sylla had then the power of a king, although he had restored the Republic.” (Cicero, _Speech on the Report of the Aruspices_, 25.) [743] The celebrated German author, Mommsen (_Roman History_, III. 15), does not admit this date of 654. He proposes, under correction, the date of 652, for the reason that the ages required for the higher offices of State, since Sylla’s time, were thirty-seven for the edileship, forty for the prætorship, forty-three for the consulship, and as Cæsar was _curule ædile_ in 689, prætor in 692, consul in 695, he would, had he been born in 654, have filled each of these offices two years before the legal age.