No More Learning

” (Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_, VI. i. 22. )

[853] Dio Cassius, XL. 63.

[854] Cicero, _Epist. Familiar. _, VIII. 14.

[855] _De Bello Gallico_, VIII. 50, 51, 52.

[856] _De Bello Gallico_, VIII. 52.

[857] “Pompey appears to agree with the Senate in requiring absolutely
the return of Cæsar on the Ides of Novembre. Curio is decided to do
everything rather than suffer this: the rest he cares little about. Our
party--you know them well--do not dare to undertake a deadly combat.
This is how things stand now. Pompey, who, without attacking Cæsar, will
accord nothing to him but what is just, accuses Curio of being an agent
of discord. At the bottom, he will not allow that Cæsar be designated
consul before he has given up his army and his province, and his great
fear is that that may happen. He is by no means spared by Curio, who
throws continually his second consulate in his teeth. I will tell you
what will come to pass: if they do not use discretion with Curio, Cæsar
will gain a defender in him. With the fear which they show of the
opposition of a tribune, they will do so much that Cæsar will remain
indefinitely master in Gaul. ” Cicero, _Epist. ad Familiar. _ VIII. 11. )

[858] Dio Cassius, XL. 41. --Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 27.

[859] Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 27.

[860] Cœlius to Cicero, _Epist. Familiar. _, VIII. 13.

[861] “It is his custom to speak in one way and to think in another; but
he has not head enough to prevent people from seeing through him. ”
(Cœlius to Cicero, _Epist. ad Familiar. _, VIII. 1. )

[862] Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 28.

[863] Plutarch, _Cæsar_, 34.

[864] Plutarch, _Pompey_, 61.

[865] Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 29. --Plutarch, _Cæsar_, 32.

[866] Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 29. --This officer (Appius) affected to
undervalue the exploits which had been accomplished in that country
(Gaul), and to spread rumours injurious to Cæsar. “Pompey,” said he,
“must have known very little his strength and reputation, otherwise
would he, in order to measure himself with Cæsar, seek other troops than
those which were at his disposal? He would conquer him with the very
legions of his enemy, as soon as he appeared, so much did the soldiers
hate Cæsar, and desire to see Pompey again. ” (Plutarch, _Pompey_, 61. )

[867] “I should like to come nearer to you; but, I regret to say, I dare
not trust myself to the two legions. . . . The two legions must not be
exposed in the presence of Cæsar without the cohorts from Picenum. ”
(_Letter from Pompey to Domitius, Proconsul. _--Cicero, _Epist. ad
Atticum_, VIII. 12. )--“All my resources are reduced to two legions,
which Pompey has retained in an odious manner, and of which he is no
more sure than of foreigners. ” (Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_, VII. 13. )

[868] Plutarch, _Pompey_, 61.

[869] Plutarch, _Cæsar_, 33.

[870] “Do you approve that Labienus and Mamurra should have amassed
immense riches? ” (Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_, VII. 7. )

[871] Dio Cassius, XL. 63, 64.

[872] Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 30. --Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_, VIII.
4.

[873] Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 31. --Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_, VI. 9;
VII. 1.

[874] Dio Cassius, XL. 64.

[875] Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 31.

[876] Cœlius to Cicero, _Epist. Familiar. _, VIII. 14.

[877] Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_, VII. 3.

[878] Cicero landed at Brundusium on the 7th of the Calends of December,
704. (Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_, VII. 2. )

[879] “I receive flattering letters from Cæsar; Balbus writes me as many
in his name. I am firmly determined not to flinch a finger’s length from
the road of honour; but you know how much I am under obligation to
Cæsar. Do you think that I have not to fear that they will reproach me
my debt, if I vote even quietly in his favour, and, if I speak strongly,
that they will ask it loudly from me? What am I to do? Pay it, you will
say. Well! I will borrow from Cœlius. But think of it, I beg of you, for
I expect, if I happen to speak firmly in the Senate, your good friend
from Tartessus will at once tell me: You, pay what you owe! ” (Year 704,
9th December. Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_, VII. 3. )

[880] “What will become of us? I have a good mind to shut myself up in
the citadel of Athens, whence I write you this note. ” (Year 704. _Epist.
ad Atticum_, VI. 9. )--“Consequently, leaving to the fools the initiative
of speech, I think that I shall do well to endeavour to obtain this
triumph, were it only to have a reason not to be in Rome; but they are
sure to find a means to come to wrest my opinion from me. You will laugh
at me. How I wish I had remained in my province! ” (Cicero, _Epist. ad
Atticum_, VII. 1. )

[881] “He has borne witness, which I did not ask him, to my integrity,
my equity, and my kindness, and he has refused me what I expected from
him. You should see how Cæsar, in the letter in which he congratulates
me and promises me everything, knows how to make the most of this
abominable ingratitude of Cato! But this same Cato has caused twenty
days to be granted to Bibulus. You must excuse me being spiteful; but
this is a thing which I cannot bear, and which I will never forgive
him. ” (Year 704, November. Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_, VII. 2. )

[882] Year 704, December. Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_, VII. 7. --The
words _entire order of the knights_ are not in the text, but they result
from what Cæsar says in the same letter.

[883] Year 704, December. Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_, VII. 3.

[884] Year 704, December. Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_, VII. 7.

[885] Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_, VII. 4.

[886] “The situation of the Republic inspires me every day with more
uneasiness. Honest people do not agree so well as is thought. How many
Roman knights, how many senators, have I not heard inveighing against
Pompey, particularly on account of this unfortunate journey! What we
want is peace. All victory will be fatal, and cause a tyrant to rise up.
Yes, I am one of those who think that it is better to grant all he
(Cæsar) asks than to appeal to arms. It is now too late to resist him,
when for the last ten years we have done nothing else but to give him
strength against us. ” (Year 704, December. Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_,
VII. 5. )

[887] Year 704, December. Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_, VII. 8.

[888] “Senatus frequens in alia transiit. ” (_De Bello Gallico_, VIII.
43. )

[889] “Neque senatu interveniente. ” (_De Bello Gallico_, VIII. 4. )

[890] Suetonius, _Cæsar_, 30.

[891] Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 22. --Plutarch, _Cæsar_, 41; _Pompey_,
85.

[892] _De Bello Gallico_, VIII. 54.

[893] It ended before the consular year.

[894] Drumann is of opinion that the “Commentaries” are in error in
mentioning Fabius.

[895] Plutarch, _Pompey_, 59. --Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 32.

[896] Velleius Paterculus, II. 49.

[897] Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_, VII. 9.

[898] Plutarch, _Pompey_, 63.

[899] Plutarch (_Pompey_, 59) pretends even that they read it before the
people.

[900] Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 32.

[901] Cæsar, _De Bello Civili_, I. 1.

[902] Cicero, _Epist. Familiar. _, VIII. 8.

[903] Cæsar, _De Bello Civili_, I. 3.

[904] The Sibylline books had predicted the empire of Rome to three
Cornelii: L.
Cornelius Cinna had been consul; Sylla, dictator; Cornelius
Lentulus was in hopes of being the third.

[905] Cicero, _Epist. Familiar. _, XVI. 12.

[906] Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 34.

[907] Cicero, _Epist. Familiar. _, XVI. 2. --_Philippica_, II. 21, 22.

[908] Plutarch, _Antony_, 7. --Dio Cassius, XLI. 2, 3.

[909] Plutarch, _Antony_, 7. --Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 33.

[910] Cicero, _Epist. Familiar. _, XVI. 12.

[911] Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 34.

[912] Cicero, _Epist. Familiar. _, XVI. 11.

[913] Florus, IV. 11.

[914] Cæsar, _De Bello Civili_, I. 15. --Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_,
VII. 23.

[915] Cæsar, _De Bello Civili_, I. 7. --Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_, VII.
13.

[916] Cæsar, _De Bello Civili_, I. 12. --Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_,
VII. 3. --Lucan, _Pharsalia_, II. , line 463.

[917] Cæsar, _De Bello Civili_, I. 6, 30. --Cicero, _Epist. Familiar. _,
V. 20; XVI. 12; _Epist. ad Atticum_, X. 16. --Suetonius, _Cæsar_, 34.

[918] Cicero, _Epist. Familiar. _, XV. 11. --Appian, _Civil Wars_, II.
34. --Cæsar, _De Bello Civili_, I. 7.

[919] Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 36.

[920] The “Commentaries,” it is true, say that the tribunes of the
people rejoined Cæsar at Rimini: but it was more probably at Ravenna, as
reported by Appian (II. 33), or in his camp between Ravenna and Rimini.

[921] The words of the proclamation of the Emperor Napoleon on landing
in the gulf of Juan in 1815.

[922] Suetonius, _Cæsar_, 68.

[923] Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_, VII. 12.

[924] “Cæsar has received a terrible blow: T. Labienus, who had so much
influence in his army, has refused to become his accomplice: he has left
him and has joined us. This example will have numerous imitators. ”
(Cicero, _Epist. Familiar. _, XVI. 12. )--“Labienus considers Cæsar as
utterly unable to maintain the struggle. ” (Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_,
VII. 16. )

[925] “Is that honourable . . . (in Cæsar) to think of nothing but
abolition of debts, calling back exiles, and so many other outrages? ”
(Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_, VII. 11. )

[926] “A power after the manner of Sylla, that is what Pompey desires,
and what all those wish who surround him. ” (Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_,
VIII. 11. )

[927] Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 35. --Plutarch, _Cæsar_, 35.

[928] Lucan, _Pharsalia_, I. , line 526.

[929] Suetonius, _Cæsar_, 7. --Plutarch, _Cæsar_, 37.

[930] Suetonius, _Cæsar_, 32.

[931] De la Nauze refers this opposition to the 17th of April following
(_Académie des Inscriptions_, tom. XXVI. 244). His calculation is
incorrect.

[932] De la Nauze, influenced by his wrong calculation of the opposition
of Jupiter, insists that these events took place at the approach of
spring. He overlooks the particle _jam_. Ideler suppresses it from the
German text.

[933] According to the system of Ideler, the Helvetii only started on
the Julian 16th of April. On that reckoning, we cannot find room for the
numerous events which occurred before the wheat was ripe. (Cæsar, _De
Bello Gallico_, I. 16. )

[934] The system of Ideler (see Korb, in Orelli, _Onomasticum
Tullianum_, tom. I. , p. 170), according to whom the 6th of the Calends
of October fell on the Julian 30th of August, is manifestly in the
wrong. Cæsar, who, in the preceding year, saw no objection to pass into
Britain at the end of August, would not have troubled himself about the
equinox when it was still 27 days’ distant.

[935] General de Gœler has sought to raise a new system founded on the
assumption that the Roman year had only 354 days. According to him, this
reduction would have been necessary to find the 560 days of which Cicero
speaks. The author commits more than one error; among others, he
ascribes, by inattention, 29 days instead of the 27, to the month of
February in the year 703. (De Gœler, p. 91. )

[936] Suetonius had written: “Cæsar placed, for this time, two more
months between November and December, so that the year had fifteen
months, including the one to be intercalated, which, following the
usage, had fallen in this same year. ” Censorinus, adopting this view,
finds that Cæsar intercalated 90 days in the year 708. But Suetonius has
bequeathed us other errors. Dio Cassius, consul for the second time in
the year 229 after Christ, had drawn from authentic sources; it is
better to hold to his system, which restores the astronomical
concordance for the equinox in the year 700, whereas, with the system of
Censorinus, it has been sought in vain what Cæsar’s intention could have
been.

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Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:

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consequene=> consequence {pg 84}

Helveti=> Helvetii {pg 278}

Cevennes=> Cévennes {pg 278 fn. 466}

Dumnacas=> Dumnacus {pg 382}

Dio Cassius, XXXXIX. 22. => Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 22. {pg 429 fn. 619}

preraired=> repaired {pg 435 fn. 638}

All interview=> An interview {pg 439}

Choisy-a-Bac=> Choisy-au-Bac {pg 529}

we suppose that ther number=> we suppose that their number {pg 556}

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