(Dion
Cassius, 38. c. 8.)]
[Footnote 475: The marriage with Pompeius took place in Caesar's
consulship. _Life of Crassus_, c. 16.
This Servilius Caepio appears to be Q. Servilius Caepio, the brother of
Servilia, the mother of M. Junius Brutus, one of Caesar's assassins.
Servilius Caepio adopted Brutus, who is accordingly sometimes called Q.
Caepio Brutus. (Cicero, _Ad Divers._ vii. 21; _Ad Attic._ ii. 24.) Piso
was L. Calpurnius Piso, who with Aulus Gabinius was consul B.C. 58.]
[Footnote 476: Q. Considius Gallus. He is mentioned by Cicero several
times in honourable terms (_Ad Attic._ ii. 24).]
[Footnote 477: Cicero went into exile B.C. 58. See the Life of Cicero,
c. 30.
Dion Cassius (38. c. 17) states that Caesar was outside of the city
with his army, ready to march to his province, at the time when
Clodius proposed the bill of penalties against him. Cicero says the
same (_Pro Sestio_, c. 18). Caesar, according to Dion, was not in
favour of the penalties contained in the bill; but he probably did not
exert himself to save Cicero. Pompeius, who had presided at the
comitia in which Clodius was adrogated into a Plebeian family, in
order to qualify him to be a tribune, treated Cicero with neglect
(Life of Pompeius, c. 46). Caesar owed Cicero nothing. Pompeius owed
him much. And Cicero deserved his punishment.]
[Footnote 478: Caesar's Gallic campaign began B.C.
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