6 Frederick Warren San ford 



The date of Hortensius's death near the end of June, Nissen 

 remarks,^'* is consistent with the date already estabhshed for the 

 augural election. 



The rumor current in Rome between September 19 and 23, that 

 Caesar would occupy Placentia with four legions October 15,^" 

 Nissen and Sternkopf explain as having been caused by Caesar's 

 first trip to Italy at the close of September.^^ 



Nissen notes that both Fam. VIII, 12, and VIII, 14, expect 

 Cicero to arrive home soon.^^ 



II 



Nissan's interpretation of hibernis pcractis (B. G., VIII, 50, i), 

 " after inspection of the winter quarters," can not be successfully 

 defended. Caesar surely had no occasion to inspect the camp at 

 Nemetocenna, which had been his own headquarters during the 

 winter of 51/50;^^ and there is no cogent reason for thinking that 

 he visited the other camps in which the various legions were sta- 

 tioned. The only tour of this kind mentioned in the Commen- 

 taries was made in 54, and then for the special purpose of finding 

 what progress had been made in the construction of a fleet for 

 the expedition to Britain.^* The verb employed in the passage 



September, after the ludi Romani, and accepted as a text in §4: Sets 

 Domitio comitiorum diem tiinori esse. In like manner Tyrrell and Purser 

 (Correspondence of M. TtiUius Cicero, III, pp. LXXXIII, XCIX) desig- 

 nate June as the month in which the augural election occurred, but assign 

 Fam. VIII, 12, to September (p. 240) and adopt the same text as Hoffmann 

 in §4. Mommsen (Staatsr., V, p. 563, i) thought nothing stood in the 

 way of dating the augural election in 50 between the consular and prae- 

 torian elections. L. Holzapfel (" Der Endtermin der gallischen Statt- 

 halterschaft Casars," Beitrcige zur alien Geschichte, V, p. 112, 6) in pass- 

 ing dates Fam. VIII, 14, in August. O. E. Schmidt (Briefwechsel, p. 88) 

 gives the augural election a date between Sept. 20 and 24 and dates Fam. 

 VIII, 14, the 23d or 24th. 



"'Ausbr., p. 68, i; cf. Fam. VIII, 13; Ati. VI, 6, 2; Brut. i. 



'"Att.yi.Q, I, 5. 



'^Ausbr., p. 69; Quaesf., p. 28. 



'^Ausbr., p. 68, i. 



"^B. G., VIII, 46, 6; 52, I. 



'' B. G., V, 2, 2. 



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