Authors, Latin -- Biography; Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Statesmen -- Rome -- Biography
[284] The reader who wishes to understand with what
anarchy the largest city in the world might still exist,
should turn to chapter viii. of book v. of Mommsen's
History.
[285] Ad Att., lib. iii., 12.
[286] Horace, Epis., lib. ii., 1.
[287] Ad Att., lib. i., 8.
[288] Horace, Epis., lib. ii., 11. The translation is
Conington's.
[289] Vell. Pat., lib. i., xiii.
[290] "Civile;" when Sulla, with Pompey under him, was
fighting with young Marius and Cinna.
[291] "Africanum;" when he had fought with Domitius, the
son-in-law of Cinna, and with Hiarbas.
[292] "Transalpinum;" during his march through Gaul into
Spain.
[293] "Hispaniense;" in which he conquered Sertorius.
[294] "Servile;" the war with Spartacus, with the slaves
and gladiators.
[295] "Navale Bellum;" the war with the pirates.
[296] For the full understanding of this oft-quoted line
the reader should make himself acquainted with Cato's
march across Libya after the death of Pompey, as told by
Lucan in his 9th book.
END OF VOLUME I.
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