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had been no magistrate, and therefore not entitled to full Roman treatment, yet he was a Transalpine, and therefore not subject to the scourge. See Mr. Watson's note in his Select Letters.
78
Ad Div., lib. ii., 8.
79
Ad Att., lib. v., 13.
80
Ibid.: "Quæso ut simus annui; ne intercaletur quidem." It might be that an intercalary month should be added, and cause delay.
81
Ad Div., lib. viii., 2: "Ut tibi curæ sit quod ad pantheras attinet."
82
Ad Att., lib. v., 14.
83
Ad Div., lib. iii., 5.
84
Ad Att., lib. v., 15.
85
Ibid., 16.
86
Ad Att., lib. v., 17.
87
Ad Div., lib. iii., 6.
88
Ad Div., lib. xv., 1.
89
Ibid., iii., 8.
90
Ad Div., lib. viii., 8.
91
Ad Div., lib. viii., 10.
92
Ibid., ii., 10.
93
This mode of greeting a victorious general had no doubt become absurd in the time of Cicero, when any body of soldiers would be only too willing to curry favor with the officer over them by this acclamation. Cicero ridicules this; but is at the same time open to the seduction – as a man with us will laugh at the Sir Johns and Sir Thomases who are seated around him, but still, when his time comes, will be pleased that his wife shall be called "My Lady" like the rest of them.
94
Ad Div., lib. ii., 7.
95
Ad Att., lib. v., 2.
96
Ad Div., lib. xv., 4.
97
Ibid., xv., 10, and lib. xv., 13: "Ut quam honorificentissimum senatus consultum de meis rebus gestis faciendum cures."
98
Ad Div., lib. viii., 6.
99
Ibid., 7.