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