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ate Labienus. From the nature of things these negotiations are 

 not likely to have been carried on until Labienus was in Italy. 

 It is probable that the review of Caesar's army occurred about the 

 middle of October, and that Caesar left his army to go to Italy 

 by the end of the first week in November. The time necessary 

 for Labienus's journey to Cisalpine Gaul, if he had been present 

 at the review, for the fact of his arrival to become known in 

 Rome, for the discovery of the attempts to undermine his loyalty 

 to Caesar, and for the journeys of couriers to Caesar sent to 

 apprise him of these attempts, would much have exceeded the 

 interval between the review and Caesar's departure for Italy. 

 Labienus, we may conclude, had been in Cisalpine Gaul for a con- 

 siderable time before he was given charge of the province. It 

 can not be far from the truth to assume that the efforts to attach 

 him to the cause of the Pompeians began, or at least took on a 

 more serious character, at the time when the rumor with regard 

 to the occupation of Placentia was rife in the city, near the middle 

 of September, but were discovered by Caesar's friends only in 

 time to inform him subsequently to the review. 



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If the conclusion reached in this paper as to the date of Fam. 

 VIII, 14, is sound, some other emendation must be found for the 

 corrupt passage in Faw. VIII, 12, 4, than the one usually adopted: 

 Scis Domitio comitiorum diem timori esse. Te {cxspecto, etc.). 

 The reading of the Medicean is: Scis Domitio diem tumorae est 

 (exspecto, etc.). The following emendations are suggested as 

 possible: (i) Scis Domiti odium timori esse. Te (exspecto, 

 etc.). Wrong division gave Domitio dium, dium then being al- 

 tered, deliberately or inadvertently, to the familiar diem; the re- 

 maining words (timori esse. Te) are adopted from former 

 emendations. The tum of tumorae might easily come from tim 

 of timori, but final ae from final i is not so likely. (2) Scis 

 Domiti odium in tumor e esse. Te (exspecto, etc.). Odium may 

 have been written in abbreviation, odiu; wrong division gave 

 Domitio; in was mistaken for m and attached to diu, with the 

 change of dium to diem; final ^ of tum ore, as frequently happens 



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