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Antoniiis was first elected tribune, then augur; (2) that Fam. 

 VIII, 14, was carried from Rome by Acastus September 23. 

 Hibernis peractis, B. G., VIII, 50, i, together with the context, 

 favors an earher date than late September for Caesar's first jour- 

 ney to Italy. The validity of other points raised by Nissen and 

 Sternkopf must be determined ultimately in the light of other 

 evidence. 



Ill 



Hirtius, in speaking of Caesar's first trip to Italy, B. G., VIII, 

 50, 2, says that Caesar had sent Antonius on ahead paulo ante. 

 Antonius was also elected tribune.^"' He must therefore have 

 come to Rome at least a trinundimini before the date of the tribu- 

 nician election, in order to make the usual professio.^^ We have 

 found in August 24 a terminus ante quern for the election of trib- 

 unes, consuls, and praetors. These three colleges of magistrates 

 appear to have been elected relatively in the order named in the 

 period of the late Republic, although not necessarily in imme- 

 diate succession.^2 If it be assumed that these elections in 50 

 were held in August and in immediate succession, the latest date 

 for the praetorian election would be the 20th, which was the last 

 comitial day before the 24th, the latest date for the consular elec- 

 iion the i8th, for the tribunician the i6th, and the latest date for 

 Antonius's professio, if the trinnndinnm was seventeen days, the 

 Jast day of July. Antonius should therefore have left his camp 

 in the Belgian country^^ before the middle of July, the distance to 

 travel being not less than 1,100 m.p. But he certainly left Belgium 

 at a much earlier date. Antonius and Caesar could not have known 

 what date would be set for the election of tribunes. To be on 

 the safe side they would have to assume the earliest possible date, 



'^ Hirtius says nothing of Antonius's election to the tribunate. This is 

 probably due to the fact that he is concerned primarily with Caesar's move- 

 ments, and so mentions only those political events in Rome which, as he 

 alleges, affected Caesar's plans, viz., Antonius's candidacy for the augurate 

 and the result of the consular election. 



^"■Staatsr., P, p. 484; Rom. Alt., V, p. 714. 



"'i^oOT. ^/^, r, p. 718. 



■^'B. G., VIII, 46, 4; 47. 



