[33] "Quae potest homini esse polito delectatio," Ad Div., vii., 1. These words have in subsequent years been employed as an argument against all out-of-door sports, with disregard of the fact that they were used by Cicero as to an amusement in which the spectators were merely looking on, taking no active part in deeds either of danger or of skill.--_Fortnightly Review_, October, 1869, The Morality of Field Sports. [34] Ad Att., lib. iv., 16. [35] Ad Div., ii., 8. [36] See the letter, Ad Quin. Frat., lib. iii., 2: "Homo undique actus, et quam a me maxime vulneraretur, non tulit, et me trementi voce exulem appellavit." The whole scene is described. [37] Ad Fam., v., 8. [38] Ad Quin. Frat., ii., 12. [39] Ad Att., iv., 15. [40] Val. Max., lib. iv., ca. ii., 4. [41] Horace, Sat., lib. ii., 1: HOR. "Trebati, Quid faciam praescribe."--TREB. "Quiescas."--HOR. "Ne faciam, inquis, Omnino versus?"--TREB. "Aio."--HOR. "Peream male si non Optimum erat." Trebatius became a noted jurisconsult in the time of Augustus, and wrote treatises. [42] Ca. iv.: "Male judicavit populus. At judicavit. Non debuit, at potuit." [43] Ca. vi.: "Servare necesse est gradus. Cedat consulari generi praetorium, nec contendat cum praetorio equester locus." [44] Ca. xix. [45] Ad Fam., i., 9. [46] Ca. xi. [47] Ad Fam., lib. ii., 6: "Dux nobis et auctor opus est et eorum ventorum quos proposui moderator quidem et quasi gubernator." [48] Mommsen, book v., chap. viii. According to the historian, Clodius was the Achilles, and Milo the Hector. In this quarrel Hector killed Achilles. [49] Ad Att., lib. iv., 16. [50] Ad Fam., lib. vii., 7. [51] Vell. Pat., ii., 47. [52] We remember the scorn with which Horace has treated the Roman soldier whom he supposes to have consented to accept both his life and a spouse from the Parthian conqueror: Milesne Crassi conjuge barbara Turpis maritus vixit?--Ode iii., 5. It has been calculated that of 40,000 legionaries half were killed, 10,000 returned to Syria, and that 10,000 settled themselves in the country we now know as Merv. [53] Ad Quin. Frat., lib. ii., 4, and Ad Att., lib. iv., 5. [54] "Interrogatio de aere alieno Milonis." [55] Livy, Epitome, 107: "Absens et solus quod nulli alii umquam contigit." [56] The Curia Hostilia, in which the Senate sat frequently, though by no means always. [57] Ca. ii. [58] Ca. v. [59] Ca. xx., xxi. [60] Ca. xxix. [61] Ca. xxxvii.: "O me miserum! O me infelicem! revocare tu me in patriam, Milo, potuisti per hos. Ego te in patria per eosdem retinere non potero!" "By the aid of such citizens as these," he says, pointing to the judges' bench, "you were able to restore me to my country. Shall I not by the same aid restore you to yours?" [62] Ad Fam., lib. xiii., 75.