[221] Pro P. Sulla, iv.: "Scis me * * * illorum expertem temporum et sermonum fuisse; credo, quod nondum penitus in republica versabar, quod nondum ad propositum mihi finem honoris perveneram. * * * Quis ergo intererat vestris consiliis? Omnes hi, quos vides huic adesse et in primis Q. Hortensius." [222] Ad Att., lib. i., 12. [223] Ad Att., lib. i., 13. [224] Ibid., i., 14. [225]Ibid., i., 16: "Vis scire quomodo minus quam soleam præliatus sum." [226] "You have bought a fine house," said Clodius. "There would be more in what you say if you could accuse me of buying judges," replied Cicero. "The judges would not trust you on your oath," said Clodius, referring to the alibi by which he had escaped in opposition to Cicero's oath. "Yes," replied Cicero, "twenty-five trusted me; but not one of the thirty-one would trust you without having his bribe paid beforehand." [227] Ad Att., i., 14: "Proxime Pompeium sedebam. Intellexi hominem moveri." [228] Ibid.: "Quo modo [Greek: eneperpereusamên], novo auditori Pompeio." [229] Mommsen, book v., chap. vi. This probably has been taken from the statement of Paterculus, lib. ii., 40: "Quippe plerique non sine exercitu venturum in urbem adfirmabant, et libertati publicæ statuturum arbitrio suo modum. Quo magis hoc homines timuerant, eo gratior civilis tanti imperatoris reditus fuit." No doubt there was a dread among many of Pompey coming back as Sulla had come: not from indications to be found in the character of Pompey, but because Sulla had done so. [230] Florus, lib. ii., xix. Having described to us the siege of Numantia, he goes on "Hactenus populus Romanus pulcher, egregius, pius, sanctus atque magnificus. Reliqua seculi, ut grandia æque, ita vel magis turbida et f[oe]da." [231] We have not Pollio's poem on the conspiracy, but we have Horace's record of Pollio's poem: Motum ex Metello consule civicum, Bellique causas et vitia, et modos, Ludumque Fortunæ, gravesque Principum amicitias, et arma Nondum expiatis uncta cruoribus, Periculosæ plenum opus aleæ, Tractas, et incedis per ignes Suppositos cineri doloso.--Odes, lib. ii., 1. [232] The German index appeared--very much after the original work--as late as 1875. [233] Mommsen, lib. v., chap. vi. I cannot admit that Mommsen is strictly accurate, as Cæsar had no real idea of democracy. He desired to be the Head of the Oligarchs, and, as such, to ingratiate himself with the people.