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XXI. 



NOTES ON CICERO'S CORRESPONDENCE DTJRING HIS 

 PROCONSULATE. By L. C. PURSER, Litt. D. 



[Read February 11, 1901.] 



Ad Atticum v. 1. 2. — De Opplo factiim est ut volui et maxime quod 

 DCCC aperuisti. 



Theee is no need to add de before DCCC. Cicero uses aperire 

 in the usual sense of bringing to light what is concealed. Atticus 

 unearthed a debt due by Cicero to Oppius ; and later on told Oppius 

 about it : cf. 4. 3 De Oppio lene curasti quod ei de DCCC exposuisti. 

 Cicero approved of the action of Atticus, and asked him to see that 

 the business -was settled {explicatum, 5. 2) before he left Rome. It 

 would appear to have been really a debt to Caesar (cf . Att. v. 6. 2 ; 

 10. 4), whose agents were Oppius and Balbus : cf. also Att. vii. 3. 11 ; 

 8. 5. 



V. 1. 5. — Cui me ad te scripsisse aliquid in sermone signiflces 

 velim. 



The margin of Lambinus's edition adds <de «<?> after te : Miiller, 

 more correctly, would place it after scripsisse. But the sentence 

 cannot bear its omission. 



V. 2. 1. — In Trebulano. 



Mommsen, in C. I. L. x. p. 442, speaks of three Trebulas, Trebula 

 Mutuesca, Trebula Suffenas, and the Trebula north of Capua. But he 

 adds in a note, " Contra Trebulanum cuius mentio fit apud Ciceronem 

 Att. V. 3. 4 : vii. 2. 2 ; 3. 12 rus fuit situm inter Pompeios et Beneven- 

 tum." This is quite possible ; but it seems strange that there should be 

 another district called Trebula so near (comparatively) to the one north 

 of Capua. I incline to think that the villa of Pontius lay in this latter 

 district. No doubt it seems an extraordinary route for Cicero to take ; 

 but he was "creeping like snail unwillingly" to his province, and catch- 

 ing at any reasonable excuse to dawdle on the way. And he seems him- 



