53 “One could not attend the Senate” Plut Cic XXIV 1–2
“This unpleasing habit of his” Plut Cic XXIV 2
“a certain foolish vanity” Att 38 (II 18)
54 “I swear to you” Plut Cic XXIII 2
55 “This district, let me tell you, is charming” Att 392 (XV 16a)
56 “I imagine you have heard” Att 12 (I 12)
57 “passion for fornication” Sall Cat XIII 3–5
58 “at the cross-roads” Catull 58
“You [Mark Antony] assumed a man’s toga” Phil II 18 44–45
59 “Silver-tongued among the sons of Rome” Catull 49
60 “When the day came for the bill to be put” Att 14 (I 14)
“Inside a couple of days” Att 16 (I 16)
61 Cicero’s jokes at Clodius’s expense Att 16 (I 16) and 21 (II 1)
62 “as if he were coming back from a foreign holiday” Plut Pomp XLII 3
63 “He professes the highest regard for me” Att 13 (I 13)
64 “Life out of uniform” Plut Pomp XXIII 4
“I need 25 million sesterces” App II 8
65 “I brought the house down” Att 14 (I 14)
The description of Pompey’s Triumph is based on Plutarch’s life of him but also draws on some material from his life of Aemilius Paulus.
66 “Giving up all attempts to equal Pompey” Plut Crass VII 2
“The demand was disgraceful” Att 17 (I 17)
“the dregs of the urban population” Att 19 (I 19)
67 “AS for our dear friend Cato” Att 21 (XI 1)
68 “those conspirators of the wine table” Att 16 (I 16)
“had used up the entire perfume cabinet of Isocrates” Att 21 (II 1)
“What I most badly need at the present is a confidant” Att 18 (I 18)
69 “I trusted and indeed convinced myself” Att 17 (I 17)
70 “Meantime the paths” Att 23 (II 3)
71 “When I notice how carefully arranged his hair is” Plut Caes IV 4
72 Cato’s arrest Dio XXXVIII 2–3
73 “Let us wait then” Plut Cic XXVI 3
“the Queen of Bithynia” Suet I 49
74 “I have taken so kindly to idleness” Att 26 (II 6)
“When I read a letter of yours” Att 35 (II 15)
75 “I have so lost my manly spirit” Att 34 (II 14)
“Sampsiceramus … is out for trouble” Att 37 (II 17)
76 “Dear Publius is threatening me” Att 39 (II 19)
“For himself he wanted a high command” Sall Cat LIV
77 “all Catilina’s forces” Post red XIII 33
78 “the Senate met to pass a vote” Plut Cic XXXI 1
79 “could not face seeing him” Plut Cic XXXI 2–3
Chapter 7—Exile: 58–52 BC
Appian and Dio Cassius continue to give the general background with Plutarch providing additional color. (Also, with Caesar’s growing prominence, Suetonius’s life of him begins to be useful.) Cicero’s letters and speeches are the crucial resource. For Clodius’s death Asconius is more to be trusted than Cicero’s almost completely unreliable account in his defense of Milo. Quintus’s adventures in Gaul are taken from Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul.
80 “I miss my daughter” Quint 3 (I 3)
“Has any man ever fallen” Att 55 (III 10)
81 “I will only say this” Att 54 (III 9)
82 “The Tiber was full of citizens’ corpses” Sest LVII
83 “From your letter and from the facts themselves” Att 72 (III 27)
“by which I did not simply return home” Dom XVIII 75
84 “It is a sort of second life” Att 73 (IV 1)
“heavy with wine … talking with him” Post red VI 13–14 praise of Pompey Post red II 5
“The decree was read out” Att 73 (IV 1)
85 “Those same gentlemen” Att 74 (IV 2)
“On November 11” Att 75 (IV 3)
“My heart is high” Att 75 (IV 3)
86 “Pale with fury” Quint 7 (II 3)
87 “My refutation” Cael XIII 32
88 “The Germans’ left was routed” Bell gall II 2
89 “Ah, just the man I want” Quint 20 (I 9)
90 “Come on! Do you really think” Att 80 (IV 5)
“These years of my life” Quint 25 (III 5)
“I was weary of it” Fam 24 (VII 1)
91 “After all, what could be more humiliating” Att 83 (IV 6)
“I believe in moving with the times” Fam 20 (I 9)
92 “talked to me at length” Quint 10 (II 6)
“Those shelves of yours” Att 79 (IV 8)
“But seriously, while all other amusements” Att 84 (IV 10)
93 “perfidy, artifice and betrayal.… Waive the laws of history” Fam 22 (V 12)
“What pleasure” Fam 24 (VII 1)
94 “the first gladiatorial show” Val Max II 4 7
95 “What pleasure can a cultivated man” Fam 24 (VII 1) “Caesar’s friends” Att 89 (IV 16)
96 “Pompey is putting a lot of pressure on me” Quint 21 (III 1)
97 “In all the world Caesar is the only man” Fam 25 (III 5)
“Cicero himself, although in very poor health” Bell gall VI 2
98 “Escaped from the great heat wave.… I was very pleased with the house” Quint 21 (III 1)
“Our affairs stand as follows” Quint 23 (III 3)
99 “a friend to us” Fam 44 (XVI 16)
100 “See about the dining room” Fam 185 (XVI 22)
“My (or our) literary brainchildren” Fam 43 (XVI 10)
“Aegypta arrived today” Fam 42 (XVI 15)
Tiro “is extraordinarily useful to me” Att 128 (VII 5)
“Well, you are a man of landed property!” Fam 337 (XVI 21)
Chapter 8—The Ideal Constitution: 55–43 BC
101 “When we inherited the Republic” Rep V I 2
102 “The government was so administered” Rep II 32 56
103 “ ‘is the highway to heaven’ ” Rep VI 16
“Law is the highest reason” Leg I 6 18–19