[Footnote 99: Q. Cæcilius Numidicus, consul B.C. 109, commanded against Iugurtha. The event referred to in the text is said to have occurred on his trial _de repetundis_, after his return from a province which he had held as proprætor (Val. Max. II. x. 1).] [Footnote 100: Hom. _Il._ xvi. 112: ἕσπετε νῦν μοι, Μοῦσαι, Ὀλύμπια δώματ' ἔχουσαι ὅππως δὴ πρῶτον πῦρ ἔμπεσε νηυσὶν Ἀχαίων. ] [Footnote 101: The reference is to Crassus. But the rest is very dark. The old commentators say that he is here called _ex Nanneianis_ because he made a large sum of money by the property of one Nanneius, who was among those proscribed by Sulla. His calling Crassus his "panegyrist" is explained by Letter XIX, pp. 33-34.] [Footnote 102: C. Curio, the elder, defended Clodius. He had bought the villa of Marius (a native of Arpinum) at Baiæ.] [Footnote 103: Q. Marcius Rex married a sister of Clodius, and dying, left him no legacy.] [Footnote 104: L. Afranius.] [Footnote 105: Reading _deterioris histrionis similis_, "like an inferior actor."] [Footnote 106: Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, married to Cato's sister. Consul B.C. 54. A strong aristocrat and vehement opponent of Cæsar.] [Footnote 107: Aufidius Lurco had apparently proposed his law on bribery between the time of the notice of the elections (_indictio_) and the elections themselves, which was against a provision of the _leges Ælia et Fufia_. What his breach of the law was in entering on his office originally we do not know: perhaps some neglect of auspices, or his personal deformity.] [Footnote 108: _I.e._ to Quintus Cicero, now proprætor in Asia, who apparently wished his brother-in-law to come to Asia in some official capacity.] [Footnote 109: Some epigrams or inscriptions under a portrait bust of Cicero in the gymnasium of Atticus's villa at Buthrotum. Atticus had a taste for such compositions. See Nepos, _Att._ 18; Pliny, _N. H._ 35, § 11.] [Footnote 110: Cicero had defended Archias, and Thyillus seems also to have been intimate with him: but he says Archias, after complimenting the Luculli by a poem, is now doing the same to the Cæcilii Metelli. The "Cæcilian drama" is a reference to the old dramatist, Cæcilius Statius (_ob._ B.C. 168).] [Footnote 111: Of Amaltheia, nurse of Zeus in Crete, there were plenty of legends. Atticus is making in his house something like what Cicero had made in his, and called his academia or gymnasium. That of Atticus was probably also a summer house or study, with garden, fountains, etc., and a shrine or statue of Amaltheia.] XXII (A I, 17) TO ATTICUS (IN EPIRUS) ROME, 5 DECEMBER [Sidenote: B.C. 61, ÆT. 45]