Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Cicero supposes Pompey and Caesar as intending to act in that capacity. Pompey, it seems, did eventually attend.↑ One of the twenty commissioners under Caesar's agrarian law. Cicero was offered and declined a place among them. The "only man," of course, refers to the intrusion on the mysteries.↑ To Egypt.↑ This seems also to refer to the twenty agrarian commissioners, who, according to Mommsen, were divided into committees of five, and were, therefore, spoken of indifferently as quinqueviri and vigintiviri. ”

“ We don't know what mistake is refened to; probably as to some money transmitted to Pomponius.↑ It is suggested that Aristodemus is some teacher of the two young Ciceros, to whom the young Marcus wishes to apologize for his absence or to promise some study.↑ Perhaps some inscription or other ornament for Atticus's gymnasiusn in his villa at Buthrotum. ”

“ Terentia sends you her regards: my boy Cicero commissions you to give Aristodemus the same answer for him as you gave for his cousin, your sister's son. [7] I will not neglect your reminder about your Amaltheia. [8] Take care of your health.
Footnotes ↑ As he was a man sui iuris, Clodius's adoption into a new gens (adrogatio) would have to take place before the comitia curiata (now represented by thirty lictors) , which still retained this formal business. ”