Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ To Atticus at Rome Tusculum, April 59 BC I wish very much, and have long wished, to visit Alexandria, and at the same time to get away from here, where people are tired of me, and return when they have begun to feel my loss—but at such a time and at the bidding of such statesmen! [1] "I fear to face the men of Troy and Trojan matrons with their trailing robes." [2] For what would my friends the Optimates say—if there are such persons left? ”

“ The mission to Egypt was in the affairs of Ptolemy Auletes (father of Cleopatra) , who was this year declared a "friend and ally." He soon got expelled by his subjects.↑ Il. 6.442; 22.100. Cicero's frequent expression for popular opinion, or the opinion of those he respects--his Mrs. Grundy.↑ Theophanes, a philosopher of Mitylene, a close friend of Pompey's, in whose house he frequently resided. He took charge of Pompey's wife and children in B.C. 48-47.↑ Q Arrius, an orator and friend of Caesar's, by whose help he had hoped for the Consulship. ”