Authors, Latin -- Biography; Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Statesmen -- Rome -- Biography
[190] Ibid., lib. xv., 26.
[191] Ad Att., lib. xv., 27.
[192] Ibid., lib. xvi., 1.
[193] Ibid., lib. xvi., 5.
[194] Ibid., lib. xvi., 2.
[195] Ad Att., lib. xvi., 7.
[196] Phil., i., 5: "Nimis iracunde hoc quidem, et valde
intemperanter." "Who," he goes on to say, "has sinned so
heavily against the Republic that here, in the Senate, they
shall dare to threaten his house by sending the State
workmen?"
[197] Brutus, Ciceroni, lib. ii., 5: "Jam concedo ut vel
Philippici vocentur quod tu quadam epistola jocans
scripsisti." I fear, however, that we must acknowledge that
this letter cannot be taken as an authority for the early
use of the name.
[198] Phil., i., ca. vii.
[199] Ibid., i., ca. viii.
[200] Ibid., i., ca. x.
[201] The year of his birth is uncertain. He had been Consul
three years back, and must have spoken often.
[202] Ad Div., lib. xii., 2.
[203] It may here be worth our while to quote the
impassioned language which Velleius Paterculus uses when he
chronicles the death of Cicero, lib. ii., 66: "Nihil tamen
egisti, M. Antoni (cogit enim excedere propositi formam
operis, erumpens animo ac pectore indignatio), nihil,
inquam, egisti, mercedem caelestissimi oris et clarissimi
capitis abscissi numerando, auctoramentoque funebri ad
conservatoris quondam reipublicae tantique consulis irritando
necem. Rapuisti tu M. Ciceroni lucem solicitam, et aetatem
senilem, et vitam miseriorem, te principe, quam sub te
triumviro mortem. Famam vero gloriamque factorum atque
dictorum adeo non abstulisti, ut auxeris. Vivit, vivetque
per omnium saeculorum memoriam; dumque hoc vel forte, vel
providentia, vel utcumque constitutum, rerum naturae corpus,
quod ille paene solus Romanorum animo vidit, ingenio
complexus est, eloquentia illuminavit, manebit incolume,
comitem aevi sui laudem Ciceronis trahet, omnisque posteritas
illius in te scripta mirabitur, tuum in eum factum
execrabitur; citiusque in mundo genus hominum, quam ea,
cadet." This was the popular idea of Cicero in the time of
Tiberius.
[204] Ad Div., lib. xii., 23.
[205] Ad Att., lib. xvi., 11.
[206] On referring to the Milo, ca. xv., the reader will see
the very different tone in which Cicero spoke of this
incident when Antony was in favor with him.
[207] It was a sign of an excellent character in Rome to
have been chosen often as heir in part to a man's property.
[208] Horace, Odes, lib. iii., 30.
[209] Ad Att., lib. xvi., 14.
[210] Philippics, lib. vi., 1.
[211] "Populum Romanum servire fas non est, quem dii
immortales omnibus gentibus imperare voluerunt."
[212] Ad Div., lib. xi., 8.
[213] Ad Div., lib. x., 3.
[214] Ad Brutum, lib. ii., 6.
[215] Appian. De Bell. Civ., lib. iii., ca. 26.
[216] Vell. Pat., lib. ii., 62: "Quae omnia senatus decretis
comprensa et comprobata sunt."
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