[Footnote 173: Leo, _op. cit._ p. 360. Schmekel deals comprehensively with Posidonius' philosophy, as reflected in Varro and Cicero, p. 85 foll.]
[Footnote 174: See Professor Reid's introduction to Cicero's _Academica_, p. 17. Cicero considered Posidonius the greatest of the Stoics.--_Ib._ p. 5.]
[Footnote 175: Cic. _de Legibus_ i. affords many examples of this view, which was apparently that of Posidonius, e.g. 6. 18 and 8. 25. Cp. _de Republica_, iii. 22. 33.]
[Footnote 176: Gaius i. i; Cic. _de Officiis_ iii. 5. 23; Mommsen, _Staatsrecht_, iii. p. 604, based on the research of H. Nettleship in _Journal of Philology_, vol. xiii. p. 175. See also Sohm, _Institutes of Roman Law_, ch. ii.]
[Footnote 177: _Brutus_ 41. 151, where he plainly ranks him above Scaevola. The passage is a most interesting one, deserving careful attention.]
[Footnote 178: The _Ninth Philippic_: the passage referred to in the text is 5. 10 foll.]
[Footnote 179: I omit _pro Murena_, chs. vii. and xxi., for want of space. Sulpicius was opposing Cicero in this case, and the latter's allusions to him are useful specimens of the good breeding spoken of above.]
[Footnote 180: See Dio Cassius xl. 59; and Cic. _ad Fam_. iv. 1 and 3, to Sulpicius, with allusions to his consulship.]
[Footnote 182: The speech _in Pisonem_; cp. the _de Provinciis consularibus_, 1-6. This Piso was the father of Caesar's wife Calpurnia, who survives in Shakespeare.]
[Footnote 183: The difficult passage in which Cicero describes the perversion of this character under the influence of Philodemus, has been skilfully translated by Dr. Mahaffy in his _Greek World under Roman Sway_, p. 126 foll.; and the reader may do well to refer to his whole treatment of the practical result of Epicureanism.]
[Footnote 184: This chapter is also useful as illustrating the urbanity of manners, for Lucullus and Pompeius were political enemies.]
[Footnote 185: _ad Fam_. viii. 5 _fin_.; viii. 9. 2.]
[Footnote 186: See the introduction of Asconius to Cicero _pro Cornelio_, ed. Clark, p. 58.]
[Footnote 188: _ad Q. frat._ ii. 1. 1; ii. 10. 1.]
[Footnote 189: The letters written immediately after Cicero's return from exile are the best examples of this paralysis of business, e.g. _ad Fam_. i. 4; _ad Q. F_. ii. 3. See a useful paper by P. Groebe in _Klio_, vol. v. p. 229.]