[273] We do not know when the marriage took place, or any of the circ.u.mstances; but we are aware that when Tullia came, in the following year, B.C. 57, to meet her father at Brundisium, she was a widow.

[274] Suetonius, Julius Caesar, xii.: "Subornavit etiam qui C. Rabirio perduellionis diem diceret."

[275] "Qui civem Romanum indemnatum perimisset, ei aqua at igni interdiceretur."

[276] Plutarch tells us of this sobriquet, but gives another reason for it, equally injurious to the lady's reputation.

[277] Ad Att., lib. iii., 15.

[278] In Pisonem, vi.

[279] Ad Att., lib. x., 4.

[280] We are told by Cornelius Nepos, in his life of Atticus, that when Cicero fled from his country Atticus advanced to him two hundred and fifty sesterces, or about 2000. I doubt, however, whether the flight here referred to was not that early visit to Athens which Cicero was supposed to have made in his fear of Sulla.

[281] Ad Fam., lib. xiv., iv.: "Tullius to his Terentia, and to his young Tullia, and to his Cicero," meaning his boy.

[282] Pro Domo Sua, xxiv.

[283] Ad Quin. Fra., 1, 3.

[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.