]
[Footnote 595: Compare the Life of Brutus, c. 1, Dion Cassius (44. c.
12), and Drumann, _Geschichte Roms_, Junii, p. 2. This Brutus was not
a descendant of him who expelled the last king.]
[Footnote 596: Plutarch means the office of Praetor Urbanus, the
highest of the offices called praetorships. There was originally only
one praetor, the Praetor Urbanus. There were now sixteen. The Praetor
Urbanus was the chief person engaged in the administration of justice
in Rome; and hence the allusion to the "tribunal" ([Greek: bema])
where the Praetor sat when he did business.]
[Footnote 597: I have translated this according to the reading of
Sintenis. Compare the Life of Brutus, c. 8. Caesar was very lean. As to
the writings compare Dion Cassius (44, c. 12).]
[Footnote 598: See the Life of Brutus, c. 89.]
[Footnote 599:
_Caesar_. Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
Shakspere, _Julius Caesar_, Act i. Sc. 2.]
[Footnote 600: The passage was in the Historical Memoirs. See the Life
of Sulla, c. 26; and the Life of Lucullus, c. 28. Notes.]
[Footnote 601: The Ides of March were the 15th, on which day Caesar was
murdered.]
[Footnote 602: Compare Dion Cassius (44. c. 17). Caesar also had a
dream.]
[Footnote 603: I have kept Plutarch's word, which is Greek.
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