]
[Footnote 701: This was in B.C. 61, at the election of the consuls L.
Afranius and Q. Caecilius Metellus Celer, the consuls of B.C. 60. See
the Life of Pompeius, c. 44.]
[Footnote 702: Caesar returned B.C. 60, and was consul B.C. 59. See the
Life of Caesar, c. 13, 14, for the events alluded to in this 31st
chapter; and the Life of Pompeius, c. 47.]
[Footnote 703: See the Life of Caesar, c. 14.]
[Footnote 704: Numidicus. The story is told in the Life of Marius, c.
29. The matters referred to in this and the following chapter are told
circumstantially by Dion Cassius (38, c. 1-7). See Life of Caesar, c.
14.]
[Footnote 705: L. Calpurnius Piso, the father of Calpurnia the wife of
Caesar, and Aulus Gabinius were consuls B.C. 58. Aulus Gabinius, when
Tribunus Plebis B.C. 67, proposed the law which gave Pompeius the
command against the pirates. The meaning of the obscure allusion at
the end of the chapter, which is literally rendered, may be collected
from the context; and still more plainly from the abuse which Cicero
heaps on Gabinius for his dissolute life after he had been banished in
the consulship of Gabinius (Drumann, _Gabinii_, p. 60).]
[Footnote 706: This Ptolemaeus, the brother of Ptolemaeus Auletes, King
of Egypt, was now in possession of Cyprus, and the mission of Cato,
which could not be to his taste, was to take possession of the island
for the Romans.
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