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24. peruiguere, ' flonrisberi t.n tVip pml ' The word occurs
nowhere else. Cf. c. 1 iiiguit ceciditque.
Ciceronis libro, called Qato, n ot extant ; answered by Caes ar
in two books called AiitimtTT ^ -
25! dictator Caesar, 'a frequent description of Julius Caesar
in Tacitus.
quid aliud quam...respondit? For the ellipse N. compares
xiii 40 ncc amplius quam decurio avdentms pronressiis ceteros ad
obseqidumjinnauerat; Suet. Claudius 16 nihil amplius quam monuit.
27. Antonii epistulae. Suetonius quotes from them in h is
^fe of Augustus .
29. carmina Bibaculi. He was M. Furius Eibaculus of
Qrgmona. a contemporary of Catul lus: Hi a poems wevp nntpA
for their rancour and turgiditv .
referta contumeliis Caesarum. See Suet. lulius 73 Valerium
CatuUum, a quo sibi uersiculis...perpetua stigmata imposita non
dissimulaverat, satisfacientem eadevi die adhibuit caenae; hospitio-
que patris eius, sicut consiteuerat, uti perseuerauit. For Catullus'
attacks see especially poem xxix, e.g. 24, 25
eone nomine, imperator unice,
socer generque perdidistis omnia?
also liv iruscere iterum meis iambis
immerentibus , unice imperator?
also xcii nil nimium studeo, Caesar, tibi uelle placere
nee scire utrum sis albus an ater homo.
30. Caesarum, i.e. .Tnljng gnr| Anpjngtng rati^ ]1iig of course .
attacked Julius only . Bibaculus may hav e lib elled Augustus also .
31. reliquere, ' left them alone.'
haud facile dixerim. Cf. c. 10 non omiserim.
38. si irascare. For the general use of the second person
cf. c. 11 refutaueris.
adgnita, ' recognised as true.'
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1. non attingo, ' I do not mention.'
2. etiam. For the omission of sed cf. i 77 non modo e plebe,
etiam militihus.