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in the Medicean, gave final ae; esse was written in abbreviation. 

 ee, which in conjunction with t of te gave est, final e of te 

 dropping out before e of exspecto. (3) Scis Domiti odium. Tu 

 moraris. Te {exspecto, etc.). Is of moraris together with t of 

 te gave est, e of te dropping out ; tu morar gave tuniorae. 



Of these emendations the second seems to me most plausible. 

 In Domiti odium I see a reference to the feeling toward Caelius 

 engendered in Domitius's mind by his defeat at the augural election, 



XI. Summary 



In the second half of May, before Antonius left his camp in 

 Belgium to enter the contest for the tribunate at the coming elec- 

 tion, word came to him and to Caesar of an actual or prospective 

 vacancy in the augural college. ^^- Antonius had coveted the place 

 which Cicero secured in this college in 53 after the death of P. 

 Crassus, but had stepped aside, as he professed, in deference to 

 the orator. ^^^ The chance now offered to gratify his ambition. 

 At the same time, a successful contest for the place would re- 

 dound to Caesar's benefit, for it was inevitable, in the tense polit- 

 ical situation of the year 50, that Caesar's enemies should vigor- 

 ously oppose any candidate known distinctly to be Caesar's personal 

 choice. Caesar therefore made known to the voters of his Cisal- 

 pine province that he desired a large attendance on their part at 

 the election. They seem to have responded to his appeal, and 

 were no doubt present at the tribunician and consular elections also. 



About the same time that Caesar and Antonius learned of the 

 vacancy in the augural college Caesar also received notification of 

 the senate's decree requiring himself and Pompeius to furnish one 

 legion each for the reinforcement of Bibulus in Syria. Pom- 

 peius demanded back the first legion, which he had previously lent 

 Caesar, as his quota of the Syrian reinforcements. Caesar 



"■Lange (Rom. Alt., IIV, p. 398) was right, I think, in deciding upon 

 late April as the period in which Hortensius fell ill and early May as the 

 period in which his death occurred. But his illness followed Appius's trial 

 for ambitus, not the trial for maiestas, the latter having taken place in 

 March, possibly; cf. Cic, Brut., 64, 230; 94, 324; Fam. Ill, 11, i. 



"' Cic, Phil. II, 2, 4. 



