The first day of the week
was, therefore, given to Saturn. Passing over Jupiter and Mars,
according to the laws of the [Greek: armonia], the next day was given
to the Sun; again passing over two, the next to the Moon, and so on,
going round again to the rest, till the still existing order came out.
Dies Saturni, dies Solis, dies Lunae, dies Martis, dies Mercurri,
dies Jovis, and dies Veneris. See Dion Cassius, _Historia
Romana_, lib. xxxvii. c. 18. Dion Cassius gives a second account of
the distribution, depending on the twenty-four hours of the day. But
the twenty-four hours being a division purely artificial, this
explanation is of less interest.
[2] _To Atticus_, x. 12.
[3] "Cum vivere ipsum turpe sit nobis."--_To Atticus_, xiii. 28.
[4] "Peream nisi sollicitus sum, ac malo veterem et clementem dominum
habere, quam novum et crudelem experiri. Scis, Cnaeus quam sit fatuus.
Scis, quomodo crudelitatem virtutem putet. Scis, quam se semper a
nobis derisum putet. Vereor, ne nos rustice gladio velit
[Greek: antimuktaerisai]"--_To Caius Cassius, Ad Fam_. xv. 19.
CHAPTER XXVI.
Caesar came back to Rome to resume the suspended work of practical reform.
His first care was to remove the fears which the final spasm of rebellion
had again provoked.
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