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1. 9. expressing, showing. Caesar found that the old calendar 

 had anticipated the true time by sixty-seven whole days. 



1. 12. Caesar's Anti-Cato was a reply to a panegyric which Cicero 

 had written on Cato the chief of the republican party, and there 

 fore an opponent of Caesar. See p. 13, 1. 32. 



1. 18. to make himself but a pair of tables, to turn himself into 

 a pair of tablets, i.e., to record. The tablets were the slips of 

 wood covered with wax, on which the Romans wrote. They 

 were folded, and the writing was preserved by the tablets having 

 projecting rims. 



1. 21. as princes pretend, which is the object of vain princes. 

 For this use of pretend, cf . p. 33, 1. 4. 



1. 28. delectable, pleasing. 



1. 30. it is reason he be thought, it is reasonable to consider 

 him. 



1. 36. cashiered, discharged. We apply the word now to an 

 officer dismissed from the army with disgrace, not that they so 

 meant, etc., i.e., not really wishing to be discharged, but hoping 

 that, by demanding their discharge, they would induce Caesar to 

 come to terms. ' Expostulation ' is no longer used in the literal 

 sense of ' demand. ' 



Page 59, 1. 7. made it their suit, requested. 



L 9. did extremely affect, was very desirous of obtaining. 



1. 12. poor, uttered only by a few. 



1. 20. of great allurement toward, well calculated to bring 

 about. 



1. 22. but for a name, the Latin translation adds'* for he had 

 long been possessed of the power of a king." whereof mean 

 families were vested, the name King was borne by people of 

 obscure birth. 



1. 26. after war declared, after he had declared war against 

 Pompey and the Senatorial party. The issue of this war was 

 that Caesar obtained supreme power in Rome. The idiom is 

 a Latin one. 



1. 28. accumulate, see on p. 16, 1. 15. 



1. 29. whereto, to which : viz., the prohibition of Metellus. 



1. 31. taking himself up, checking himself. 



1. 34. terror, used of the fear inspired, and not, as usually,- of 

 the fear felt. 



1. 36. conclude with him, finish my remarks about him. 

 Page 60, 1. 1. took it upon him, assumed. 

 1. 3. spake, we should use said. 



Lucius Sylla was elected perpetual dictator B.C. 82, but 



