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The Credentials of L. Caesar and L. Roscius

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

D. R. Shackleton Bailey
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In 49 B.C., on 23rd January by the contemporary calendar, now running over six weeks ahead of schedule, nearly a fortnight after Caesar had crossed the Rubicon and nearly a week after the Republican exodus from Rome, Cicero at Minturnae wrote to Atticus, who had remained behind, as follows (VII, 13a, 2):

L. Caesarem vidi Minturnis a.d. VIII Kal. Febr. mane cum absurdissimis mandatis, non hominem sed scopas solutas, ut id ipsum mihi ille [sc. Caesar] videatur irridendi causa fecisse, qui tantis de rebus huic mandata dederit; nisi forte non dedit et hic sermone aliquo arrepto pro mandatis abusus est.

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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 50 , Issue 1-2 , November 1960 , pp. 80 - 83
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Copyright © D. R. Shackleton Bailey 1960. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 Trans. Am. Philol. Ass. 72, 1941, 125–146.

2 Caesar's next sentence says that some senators also advocated the dispatch of legati to Caesar; the implication is clear that Roscius and Piso were proposing to go only in a private or semi-private capacity.

3 Historische Zeitung XLVI, 1881, 94, n. 1.

4 Caesars Monarchic 295.

5 l.c. p. 131.

6 There is nothing that pleases a certain type of scholar so much as to catch Caesar, or it may be Cicero, out. But the game needs careful playing or, perhaps half-a-century later, the slanderer may chance to be exposed in terms which give pain to his surviving friends. cf. JRS XLVI, 1956, 61 f.

7 Klio III, 1904, 213 ff.

8 Briefwechsel Ciceros p. 123.

9 Correspondence IV, Appendix 11.

10 P-W, s.v. Roscius (15).

11 Magistrates II, 265.

12 l.c. 131.

13 Drumann, Geschichte 120, n. 9. P-W, s.v. Iulius (131) 224.

14 Pompeius 213.

15 o.c. 295–7.

16 CAH IX, 639.

17 Roman Republic III, 3—contradicted however in PP. 358–361.

18 République romaine 522–5.

19 l.c. p. 131.

20 Römische Alterthümer III, 401 f.

21 Geschichte III, 120 f.

22 Greatness and Decline II, 194 f. His footnote is on the right lines.

23 Roman Republic III, 281 f.

24 History of the Roman World III, Appendix 8.

25 P-W, s.v. Pompeius (31) 2182.

26 l.c. 94.

27 History of the Roman World 400 f.

28 l.c., 94, n. 1.

29 CAH IX, 639.

30 See above, p. 81.