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Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894

"Caesar: a Sketch"

Perhaps Cicero was concerned in this.
[13] _Ad Quintum Fratrem_, ii. 3.
[14] "Tito Annio devota et constituta hostia esse videtur."--_De
Haruspicum responsis_.
[15] Ibid.
[16] "Otium cum dignitate."
[17] Abridged from the _Oratio pro Sextio_.
[18] "Me germanum asinum fuisse." Perhaps "own brother to an ass" would be
a more proper rendering.
[19] _To Atticus_, iv. 5.
[20] Clodius.
[21] Here follows much about himself and his own merits.
[22] To Lentulus Spinther, _Ad Familiares_, i. 9. The length of this
remarkable letter obliges me to give but an imperfect summary of it.
The letter itself should be studied carefully by those who would
understand Cicero's conduct.
[23] Dion Cassius.
[24] _Ad Familiares_, vii. 1.


CHAPTER XVI.

[Sidenote: B.C. 56.]
While Caesar was struggling with the Senate for leave to complete the
conquest of Gaul, fresh work was preparing for him there. Young Publius
Crassus, before he went to Italy, had wintered with the seventh legion in
Brittany. The Breton tribes had nominally made their submission, and
Crassus had desired them to supply his commissariat. They had given
hostages for their good behavior, and most of them were ready to obey. The
Veneti, the most important of the coast clans, refused. They induced the
rest to join them.


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