It
seems that Caesar raked up all that he could in Cato's life that was
against him, and this affair of Marcia furnished him with plausible
matter. Hortensius died B.C. 50. Drumann remarks (_Porcii_, p. 198),
"that she lived, after the year 56, in which she reconciled Cato with
Munatius Rufus, with the consent of Cato, with Hortensius, after whose
death in the year 50 she returned into her former relation," that is,
she became again the wife of Cato. If so, Cato must have married her
again (see note, c. 25), as Plutarch says that he did. Drumann speaks
as if Cato had a reversion of her, which became an estate in
possession after the estate of Hortensius was determined by her
death.]
[Footnote 738: The quotation is from the Hercules [Greek: Herakles
mainomenos] of Euripides (v. 173), one of the extant plays.]
[Footnote 739: See Life of Caesar, c. 72.]
[Footnote 740: Another allusion to the Anticato. It is difficult to
see what probable charge Caesar could make of this circumstance. The
meaning of Plutarch may easily be conjectured (Drumann, _Porcii_, p.
192).]
[Footnote 741: See the Life of Pompeius, c. 65; and the Life of Caesar,
c. 39.]
[Footnote 742: Cn. Pompeius, the elder son of Pompeius Magnus is
meant. It is conjectured that the word "young" ([Greek: neon]) has
fallen out of the text (compare c. 58). He had been sent by his father
to get ships, and he arrived with an Egyptian fleet on the coast of
Epirus shortly before the battle of Pharsalus.
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