The
Marcellus of c. 58 is the consul of B.C. 49; and the Marcellus of c.
59 is the consul of B.C. 50, according to Dion Cassius (40. c. 66 41.
c. 1, &c.) and Appianus.]
[Footnote 340: Cicero returned from his government of Cilicia B.C.
50.]
[Footnote 341: See the Life of Caesar, c. 32.]
[Footnote 342: L. Volcatius Tullus who had been consul B.C. 66
('Consule Tullo'), Horatius (_Od._ iii. 8).]
[Footnote 343: The reply of Pompeius is given by Appianus (_Civil
Wars_, ii. 37). As to the confusion in Rome see Dion Cassius (42. c.
6-9); and the references in Clinton, _Fasti_, B.C. 49.]
[Footnote 344: Plutarch here omits the capture of Corfinium, which
took place before Caesar entered Rome. See Dion Cassius (41. c. 10),
and the Life of Caesar, c. 34.]
[Footnote 345: L. Metullus, of whom little is known. Kaltwasser makes
Caesar say to Metellus, "It was not harder for him to say it than to do
it;" which has no sense in it. What Caesar did say appears from the
Life of Caesar, c. 35. Caesar did not mean to say that it was as easy
for him to do it as to say it. He meant that it was hard for him to be
reduced to say such a thing; as to doing it, when he had said it, that
would be a light matter. Sintenis suspects that the text is not quite
right here. See the various readings and his proposed alteration; also
Cicero, _Ad Attic._ x. 4.]
[Footnote 346: Caesar (_Civil War_, i.
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