[Footnote 115: Reading (mainly with Schutz) _animus præsens et voluntas, tamen etiam atque etiam ipsa medicinam refugit_. The verb _refugit_ is very doubtful, but it gives nearly the sense required. Cicero is ready to be as brave and active as before, but the state will not do its part. It has, for instance, blundered in the matter of the law against judicial corruption. The senate offended the equites by proposing it, and yet did not carry the law. I think _animus_ and _voluntas_ must refer to Cicero, not the state, to which in his present humour he would not attribute them.] [Footnote 116: The temple of Iuventas was vowed by M. Livius after the battle of the Metaurus (B.C. 207), and dedicated in B.C. 191 by C. Licinius Lucullus, games being established on the anniversary of its dedication (Livy, xxi. 62; xxxvi. 36). It is suggested, therefore, that some of the Luculli usually presided at these games, but on this occasion refused, because of the injury done by C. Memmius, who was curule ædile.] [Footnote 117: By Agamemnon and Menelaus Cicero means Lucius and Marcus Lucullus; the former Memmius had, as tribune in B.C. 66-65, opposed in his demand for a triumph, the latter he has now injured in the person of his wife.] [Footnote 118: A man who was _sui iuris_ was properly adopted before the _commitia curiata_, now represented by thirty lictors. What Herennius proposed was that it should take place by a regular _lex_, passed by the _comitia tributa_. The object apparently was to avoid the necessity of the presence of a pontifex and augur, which was required at the _comitia curiata_. The concurrent law by the consul would come before the _comitia centuriata_. The adopter was P. Fonteius, a very young man.] [Footnote 119: L. Afranius, the other consul.] [Footnote 120: M. Lollius Palicanus, "a mere mob orator" (_Brutus_, §223).] [Footnote 121: The _toga picta_ of a triumphator, which Pompey, by special law, was authorized to wear at the games. Cicero uses the contemptuous diminutive, _togula_.] [Footnote 122: To be absent from the census without excuse rendered a man liable to penalties. Cicero will therefore put up notices in Atticus's various places of business or residence of his intention to appear in due course. To appear just at the end of the period was, it seems, in the case of a man of business, advisable, that he might be rated at the actual amount of his property, no more or less.] XXIV (A I, 19) TO ATTICUS (IN EPIRUS) ROME, 15 MARCH [Sidenote: B.C. 60, ÆT. 46]