Marcus Tullius Cicero,
Letters to Atticus — 4.3 (XCI)
“ Milo is already in possession of the campus. The candidate Marcellus [18] is snoring so loud that I can hear him next door. I am told that Clodius's vestibule is completely deserted: there are a few ragged fellows there and a canvas lantern. [19] His party complains that I am the adviser of the whole business: they little know the courage and wisdom of that hero! ”
Marcus Tullius Cicero,
Letters to Atticus — 4.3 (XCI)
“ Accordingly, Marcellinus published it, i.e., put it up outside the Curia to be read: and under it he (or some other magistrate whose name has dropped out of the text) put a notice that he was going to "watch the sky" all the dies comitiales, so as to prevent the election being held. But this had been rendered inoperative by Clodius's amendment of the lex Aelia Fufia (see Phil. 2.81) —or at any rate of doubtful validity—and, accordingly, the only thing left was the obnuntiatio by a magistrate, which Milo proceeded to make. ”
Marcus Tullius Cicero,
Letters to Atticus — 4.3 (XCI)
“ But after such wrecking of buildings, incendiaries, and wholesale robberies as these, being abandoned by his supporters, he hardly retains on his side Decimus the marshal, [4] or Gellius; takes slaves into his confidence; sees that, even if he openly assassinates everyone he wishes to, he will not have a worse case before a court of law than he has at present. ”
