35).]
[Footnote 731: Pompeius was sole consul B.C. 53, for seven months,
after which he had his father-in-law Scipio as his colleague.]
[Footnote 732: T. Munatius Plancus Bursa was a tribune in B.C. 52.
When Clodius was killed by Milo, the populace, who loved Clodius, took
the dead body into the Curia Hostilia, at the instigation of Bursa and
his colleague Rufus, and making a pile of the benches, burnt the body
and the Curia with it (Dion Cassius, 40. c. 49, 55). Bursa was tried
for his share in this matter and convicted, to the great joy of
Cicero, who was his accuser. Cicero speaks of this affair in a letter
to Marius (_Ad Diversos_, vii. 2).]
[Footnote 733: Servius Sulpicius Rufus, a friend of Cicero, who has
recorded his great talents, and a distinguished Jurist. He was consul
in B.C. 51 with M. Claudius Marcellus.]
[Footnote 734: Kaltwasser refers to the Life of Caesar, c. 22, for an
explanation of the first part of this chapter; and to the Life of
Caesar, c. 29, and to that of Pompeius, c. 58, for the transactions
which are mentioned in the latter part of this chapter.]
[Footnote 735: Caesar took Ariminum (Rimini) in B.C. 49. See the Life
of Caesar, c. 33, and the Life of Pompeius, c. 60.]
[Footnote 736: In South Italy, now Calabria Ultra. This Munatius was
probably Munatius Rufus.]
[Footnote 737: In Caesar's Anticato, which has often been mentioned.
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