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^{page 18 note 2} Some would date his assumption of the toga uirilis a year earlier.

^{page 18 note 3} Smith, R. E., Cicero the Statesman (Cambridge, 1966), 14, 19.Google Scholar

^{page 18 note 4} Q.F. ii. 12. 2.Google Scholar

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^{page 18 note 6} Plutarch, , Cic. 8. 3.Google Scholar

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^{page 18 note 8} Legg. ii. 3.Google Scholar

^{page 18 note 9} On the date of his death see Bailey, D. Shackleton on Att. i. 6. 2 (Cambridge, 1965).Google Scholar

^{page 19 note 1} De Or. ii. 2.Google Scholar

^{page 19 note 2} Nepos, , Att. 1. 1.Google Scholar

^{page 19 note 3} Plutarch, , Cic. 2. 2.Google Scholar

^{page 19 note 4} Nepos, , Att. 1. 3–4.Google Scholar

^{page 19 note 5} ita sunt dulces [sc. poetae] ut non legantur modo sed etiam ediscantur… haec a pueritia legimus ediscimus. Tusc. ii. 27.Google Scholar

^{page 19 note 6} De Or. i. 187.Google Scholar

^{page 19 note 7} For further evidence that Cicero read Homer as a boy see Q.F. iii. 5 and 6. 4.Google Scholar

^{page 19 note 8} Nepos, , Att. 1. 4.Google Scholar

^{page 19 note 9} Arch. 1.Google Scholar

^{page 20 note 1} He came to Rome in 102 and had lived there for many years when he obtained citizenship in 89. Arch. 5 and 7.Google Scholar

^{page 20 note 2} Ibid. 1. For a different interpretation see Reid's edition, p. 10.

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^{page 20 note 4} Nepos, , Att. 4. 1.Google Scholar

^{page 20 note 5} Suetonius, , Gramm. 3.Google Scholar

^{page 20 note 6} De Or. iii. 48.Google Scholar

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^{page 20 note 9} Ibid. 207.

^{page 20 note 10} Cicero's nephew was studying under a Greek rhetorician at the age of twelve. Q.F. iii. 3. 4.Google Scholar

^{page 20 note 11} Suetonius, , Rhet. 2.Google Scholar

^{page 21 note 1} Ibid. i.

^{page 21 note 2} Nepos, , Att. 1. 2.Google Scholar

^{page 21 note 3} De Or. iii. 126Google Scholar . In i. 187 he adds astronomy.

^{page 21 note 4} Tacitus evidently thought the same. See Dial. 30. 4.Google Scholar

^{page 21 note 5} Ac. Pr. iii. 115Google Scholar ; Tusc. v. 112–13.Google Scholar

^{page 21 note 6} Brut. 309.Google Scholar

^{page 21 note 7} Fam. xiii. 1. 2.Google Scholar

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^{page 21 note 9} Planc. 81.Google Scholar

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