[271] [Greek: Automalos ônomazeto] is the phrase of Dio Cassius. "Levissume transfuga" is the translation made by the author of the "Declamatio in Ciceronem." If I might venture on a slang phrase, I should say that [Greek: automalos] was a man who "went off on his own hook." But no man was ever more loyal as a political adherent than Cicero.
[273] We do not know when the marriage took place, or any of the circumstances; 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 Cæsar, 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.
[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.
[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.
[288] Horace, Epis., lib. ii., 11. The translation is Conington's.
[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.
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