[Footnote 147: The passage in brackets is believed by some, not on very good grounds, to be spurious. Otho is L. Roscius Otho, the author of the law as to the seats in the theatre of the equites. The "proscribed" are those proscribed by Sulla, their sons being forbidden to hold office, a disability which Cicero maintained for fear of civil disturbances. See _in Pis._ §§ 4-5.] [Footnote 148: Pulchellus, _i.e._, P. Clodius Pulcher, the diminutive of contempt.] [Footnote 149: Where he had been as quæstor. Hera is said to be another name for Hybla. Some read _heri_, "only yesterday."] [Footnote 150: Clodius is shewing off his modesty. It was usual for persons returning from a province to send messengers in front, and to travel deliberately, that their friends might pay them the compliment of going out to meet them. Entering the city after nightfall was another method of avoiding a public reception. See Suet. _Aug._ 53.] [Footnote 151: See p. 37, note 3.] [Footnote 152: Clodia, wife of the consul Metellus. See p. 22, note.] [Footnote 153: We don't know who this is; probably a _cavaliere servente_ of Clodia's.] [Footnote 154: _I.e._, in the business of her brother Clodius's attempt to get the tribuneship.] [Footnote 155: Though Cæsar has been mentioned before in regard to his candidature for the consulship, and in connexion with the Clodius case, this is the first reference to him as a statesman. He is on the eve of his return from Spain, and already is giving indication of his coalition with Pompey. His military success in Spain first clearly demonstrated his importance.] [Footnote 156: During the meeting of the senate at the time of the Catilinarian conspiracy (2 _Phil._ § 16).] [Footnote 157: The consul Cæcilius Metellus was imprisoned by the tribune Flavius for resisting his land law (Dio, xxxvii. 50).] [Footnote 158: M. Favonius, an extreme Optimate. _Ille Catonis æmulus_ (Suet. _Aug._ 13). He had a bitter tongue, but a faithful heart (Plut. _Pomp._ 60, 73; Vell. ii 73). He did not get the prætorship (which he was now seeking) till B.C. 49. He was executed after Philippi (Dio. 47, 49).] [Footnote 159: P. Scipio Nasica Metellus Pius, the future father-in-law of Pompey, who got the prætorship, was indicted for _ambitus_ by Favonius.] [Footnote 160: Ἀπολλόνιος Μόλων of Alabanda taught rhetoric at Rhodes. Cicero had himself attended his lectures. He puns on the name Molon and _molæ_, "mill at which slaves worked."] [Footnote 161: See pp. 57, 60.] [Footnote 162: Reading _discessionibus_, "divisions in the senate," with Manutius and Tyrrell, not _dissentionibus_; and _deinde ne_, but not _st_ for _si_.] [Footnote 163: His study, which he playfully calls by this name, in imitation of that of Atticus. See p. 30.] [Footnote 164: See Letter XV, p. 25.] [Footnote 165: His translation of the _Prognostics_ of Aratus.] [Footnote 166: Gaius Octavius, father of Augustus, governor of Macedonia.] XXVII (A II, 2)