Cicero (57 page)

116
“Let me say only one thing”
Att 116 (VI 2)
“He does seem very fond of his mother”
Att 116 (VI 2)
“There's something”
Att 118 (VI 4)

117
“Here I am in my province”
Att 121 (VI 6)
“We all find him charming”
Att 126 (VII 3)

The main sources for these years are Appian, Dio Cassius and Cicero's correspondence, together with Caesar, Plutarch and Suetonius.

118
“From the day I arrived in Rome”
Fam 146 (XVI 12)
“Pompey the Great's digestion”
Fam 94 (VIII 13)
“great quarrels ahead”
Fam 97 (VIII 14)

119
“There looms ahead a tremendous contest”
Att 124 (VII 1)
“While I am not cowardly”
Quintil XII
I
17

120
Caesar's “army is incomparably superior”
Fam 97 (VIII 14)

121
“He at once sent a few troops”
Suet I 31

122
“Since nearly all Italy”
Plut Pomp LXI 1–3
“thoroughly cowed”
Att 177 (IX 10)

123
“I have decided on the spur of the moment”
Att 133 (VII 10)
“He scorns me”
Att 179 (IX 12)
“It looks to me”
Att 141 (VII 17)

124
“I am sure you find”
Att 164 (VIII 14)
“How utterly down he is”
Att 145 (VII 21)

125
“Our Cnaeus is marvelously covetous of despotism”
Att 174 (IX 7)

126
“I was made anxious before”
Att 172 (IX 6)
“Nothing in [Pompey's] conduct”
Att 177 (IX 10)
Cicero's meeting with Caesar
Att 187 (IX 18)

127
“you have disapproved”
Att 199B (X 83)

128
“I cannot believe that you mean to go abroad”
Att 199a (X 8a)
“Do you think that if Spain is lost”
Att 199 (X 8)

129
“I hope my plan won't involve any risk”
Att 208 (X 16)
“You ask me about the war news”
Att 214 (XI 4a)

130
“I'll make you win”
Fam 156 (VIII 17)

131
“To go against him now”
Fam 153 (VIII 16)
“He has no idea how to win a war”
Suet I 36
“Consult your own best interests”
Fam 157 (IX 9)

132
“I came to regret my action”
Fam 183 (VII 3)

133
“[There] could be seen artificial arbors”
Bell civ III 96
“They insisted on it”
Suet I 30
“Excellent, if we were fighting jackdaws”
Plut Cic XXXVIII 5

The same sources as for the preceding chapter, with the addition of speeches by Cicero.

134
“He expressed himself pretty strongly on these points”
Att 218 (XI 7)

135
“As to Pompey's end”
Att 217 (XI 6)
“It is the most unbelievable thing”
Att 219 (XI 8)

136
“Her own beauty”
Plut Ant XXVII
2ff.

137
“Came, saw, conquered”
Plut Caes L 2
“Her own courage, thoughtfulness”
Att 228 (XI 17)

138
“I must ask
you
to get me out of here”
Att 230 (XI 18)
“quite a handsome one”
Fam 171 (XIV 23)
“Kindly see that everything is ready”
Fam 173 (XIV 20)

139
“I think the victory of either”
Fam 182 (V 21)

140
“I decline to be under an obligation”
Plut Cat LXVI 2
“The gods favored the winning side”
Luc I 128

141
“It's a problem for Archimedes”
Att 240 (XII 4)

142
“As for our present times”
Fam 177 (IX 2)
“Like the learned men of old”
Fam 177 (IX 2)
“I have set up as schoolmaster”
Fam 191 (IX 18)

143
“Hirtius … and Dolabella are my pupils”
Fam 190 (IX 16)
“I assure you I had no idea
she
would be there”
Fam 197 (IX 26)
“I even had the audacity”
Fam 193 (IXD 20)
“Our
bons vivants” Fam 210 (VII 26)

144
“Of course. It will be following orders”
Plut Caes LIX 3
“I used to sit in the poop”
Fam 196 (IX 15)
“Don't think I am joking”
Fam 196 (IX 15)

145
“for some reason he was extraordinarily patient”
Att 371 (XIV 17)
Cicero's jokes
Plut Cic XXVI
“I hear that, having in his day compiled volumes of
bons mots
, Caesar”
Fam 190 (IX 16)

146
“On November 26 …, at your brothers' request”
Fam 228 (VI 4)

147
“some semblance of reviving constitutional freedom”
Fam 203 (IV 4)
“Whether for nature or for glory”
Marc VII 8 21–25
The need for a Dictator
Rep VI 12
Caesar comments on reading Cicero's
Cato Att 338 (XIII 46)

148
“I waste a lot of time”
Fam 337 (XVI 21)
“She'll be a woman tomorrow”
Quintil VI 3 75

149
“As for your congratulations”
Fam 240 (IV 14)

150
“threw them all into one attempt”
Tusc III 76
“The things you like in me are gone for good”
Att 251 (XII 14)
“In this lonely place”
Att 252 (XII 15)
“I want you to find out”
Att 270 (XII 30)

151
“I want to tell you of something”
Fam 248 (IV 5)
“surely she too deserves”
Lact I 15 18

152
“Today, for the first time”
Plut Caes LVI 3

153
“Brutus reports that Caesar”
Att 343 (XIII 40)
“Dolabella came this morning”
Att 317 (XIII 9)

154
Young Quintus “is at it constantly”
Att 346 (XIII 37)
Balbus and Oppius had “never read anything better”
Att 348 (XIII 50)

155
Caesar dines with Cicero
Att 353 (XIII 52)

156
Young Quintus's conversation with Cicero
Att 354 (XIII 42)

157
“I have written more in this short time.… I cannot easily say”
Off III i 4

158
“to nude figures”
Brut LXXV 262
“they are deserted”
Brut LXXXIV 289
“In the book called
Hortensius” Div II 1
ff.

159
“it was through my books”
Div II 7

160
“the matter did not fit the persons”
Att 326 (XIII 19)

161
“The whole life of the philosopher”
Tusc I XXX 74–31 75

162
Caesar's praise of Cicero
Pliny VII 117

The main sources for Caesar's assassination are various lives by Plutarch, Nicolaus and Suetonius together with Appian and the other general historians.

163
“I should be an idiot”
Att 356 (XIV 2)

164
“Come on, Faustus”
Plut Brut IX 1–4

165
“By his generous action”
Plut Cic XL 5
“We'd better get a move on”
Plut Caes LVIII 1

166
“My name is Caesar”
Dio XLIV 10 1

167
“The people offer this”
Dio XLIV 11 3
“To Caius Caesar”
Phil II 34
“Where did the diadem come from?”
Phil II 85

168
“You, you, assassinated him”
Phil XIII 41
Caesar's diarrhea
Dio XLIV 8
“I would prefer to hold the Consulship legally”
Nic XX 70

169
“Brutus will wait for this piece of skin”
Plut Brut VIII 3
“It's not fat, longhaired fellows”
Plut Brut VIII 2
“There is no fate worse”
App II 109
“It is more important for Rome”
Suet I 86

170
“I join you in praying”
Plut Brut XV 4
“There has been enough kowtowing”
Nic XXVI 96–97

171
“The city looked as if it had been captured by an enemy”
Nic XXIV 91

In addition to the general historians Appian and Dio together with Plutarch, Cicero's Philippics are an essential source together with his correspondence. Suetonius's life of Augustus is also used.

172
“the Ides of March was a fine deed, but half done”
Att 366
(XIV 12)
“A pity you didn't invite me to dinner”
Fam 363 (XII 14)
“If a man of Caesar's genius”
Att 355 (XIV 1)

173
“Congratulations”
Fam 322 (VI 15)

174
Cicero criticizes Brutus's speech
Att 378 (XV 1a)
“What else could we have done?”
Att 364 (XIV 10)
Brutus's and Cassius's provinces. There were so many changes in the provincial allocations in 44 that it has proved hard to disentangle who received which province at what stage. The view is followed here that Julius Caesar designated Macedonia and Asia for Brutus and Cassius. A discussion of the subject can be found in Syme, 102ff.

175
“To think I saved the lives”
App II 143–47

176
“more concerned about the composition of his menus”
Att 357
(XIV 3)
“Advancing years are making me cantankerous”
Att 375 (XIV 21)

177
“The Queen's flight”
Att 362 (XIV 8)
“I hope it's true”
Att 374 (XIV 20)

178
“Octavian is with me here”
Att 366 (XIV 12)

179
“boy who owes everything to his name”
Phil XIII 11 25

180
“Hold them back, Cicero”
Att 386 (XV 6)
Conference with Brutus and Cassius
Att 389 (XV 11)

181
“armor-proofing” of philosophy
Fam 330 (XVI 23)
“Octavian, as I perceived”
Att 390 (XV 12)
“How much longer are we going to be fooled?”
Att 399 (XV 22)
“I suspect he's romancing as usual”
Att 408 (XV 29)

182
“You wouldn't believe how delighted he was”
Att 415 (XVI 7)

183
“Everyone thought he wasn't speaking so much as spewing up”
Fam
344 (XII 2)

184
“I am well aware of the criticisms”
Fam 349 (XI 28)
“unscrupulous behavior of Caius Caesar”
Off I 26
and
64

185
“You will learn to obey orders”
App III 43

186
“He has great schemes afoot”
Att 418 (XVI 8)

187
“I imagine he will have the city rabble behind him”
Att 418
(XVI 8)
“Two letters for me from Octavian in one day”
Att 419 (XVI 9)

188
“He was detained by a drinking bout”
Phil III 8 20

189
“The boy is taking the steam out of Antony”
Att 426 (XVI 15)

190
“Caesar on his own initiative”
Phil III 2 5

191
“We have for the first time”
Phil IV 6 16
“I did not mince my words”
Fam 364 (X 28)

The sources are the same as for the preceding chapter.

192
“this heaven-sent boy”
Phil V 16 43
“I happen to know all the young man's feelings”
Phil V 18 51

193
“I give you notice”
Phil VI 3 5
“I know them through and through”
Fam 352 (XVI 27)

194
“My days and nights are passed in one sole care”
Fam 362 (IX 24)
“I am sorry to hear you've given up dining out”
Fam 362 (IX 24)
Cicero as popular leader
App III 66

195
“I do not reject peace”
Phil VII 6 199

196
“If I am not in error”
Fam 365 (XII 5)

197
“I want you to know”
Fam 366 (XII 11)

198
“If I may, I will remain in the city”
Phil XII 10 24
“In my opinion, you will be wiser not to meddle”
Fam 369 (X 27)

199
“the partner of my counsels”
Phil XIII 19 44
and 1
9 40
“locked together with their swords”
App III 68

200
“I reaped the richest of rewards”
Brut 7 (IX or I.3)
“not a spark of this abominable war is left alive”
Fam 384 (X 14)
“AS
for the boy Caesar”
Brut 7 (IX or I.3)

The sources are the same as for the preceding chapter. The account of Cicero's death is based on Plutarch, Livy (quoted by Seneca the Elder) and Appian.