[Footnote 475: At the end of the next letter he says that, pending Quintus's arrival, he has stopped some of his building.] [Footnote 476: On some alleged informality the _feriæ Latinæ_ were held a second time (_instauratæ_), really, Cicero implies, in order to bar some additional days for public business, and prevent legislation, as later on the election of Pompey and Crassus was prevented (Dio, xxxix. 30).] [Footnote 477: At the end of B.C. 57, or the beginning of 56, fifteen days of _supplicatio_ were decreed in consequence of Cæsar's success in Gaul (Cæs. _B. G._ ii. 35).] [Footnote 478: Gaius Cato the tribune, who proposed to recall Lentulus.] [Footnote 479: A _scriba_ or public clerk, and a client of the patrician Clodii.] [Footnote 480: Unknown. Cicero's words seem to imply that he nearly got convicted, but not quite.] CV (Q FR II, 5 AND PARTS OF 6 AND 7) TO HIS BROTHER QUINTUS (IN SARDINIA) ROME, 8 APRIL [Sidenote: B.C. 56, ÆT. 50] I have already sent you a letter containing the information of my daughter Tullia having been betrothed to Crassipes on the 4th of April, and other intelligence public and private. The following are the events since then. On the 5th of April, by a decree of the senate, a sum of money amounting to 40,000 sestertia (about £320,000) was voted to Pompey for the business of the corn-supply. But on the same day there was a vehement debate on the Campanian land, the senators making almost as much noise as a public meeting. The shortness of money and the high price of corn increased the exasperation. Nor will I omit the following: the members of the colleges of the Capitolini and the Mercuriales[481] expelled from their society a Roman knight named M. Furius Flaccus, a man of bad character: the expulsion took place when he was at the meeting, and though he threw himself at the feet of each member.