49) thinks that the story of her attempting to destroy herself when
she heard of the death of her husband (Life of Pompeius, c. 74) is
suspicious, because she married Pompeius the year after. If Cornelia
were the only woman that was ever said to have done so, we might doubt
the story; but as she is not, we need not suspect it on that account.]
[Footnote 332: Corruption is [Greek: dorodokia] in Plutarch, 'gift
receiving,' and it ought to correspond to the Roman Peculatus. But
[Greek: dorodokia] also means corruption by bribes. Bribery is [Greek:
dekasmos] in Plutarch, which is expressed generally by the Roman
Ambitus, and specially by the verb 'decuriare.' (See Cicero's Oration
Pro Cn. Plancio, Ed. Wunder.) The offence of Scipio was Ambitus. (Dion
Cassius, 40. c. 51, &c.; Appianus, _Civil Wars_, ii. 24.) As to Roman
Bribery, see the article BRIBERY, 'Political Dictionary,' by the
author of this note, whose contribution begins p. 416.]
[Footnote 333: These 360 Judices appear to have been chosen for the
occasion of these trials. (Velleius Pater. ii. 76; Goettling,
_Roemische Staatsverfassung_, p. 482.)]
[Footnote 334: T. Munatius Plancus Bursa, a tribune of the Plebs. In
B.C. 52 Milo and Clodius with their followers had an encounter in
which Clodius was killed. Tho people, with whom he was a favourite,
burnt his body in the Curia Hostilia, and the Curia with it. (Dion
Cassius, 40, c.
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