[Footnote 116: Marq. _Staatsverwaltung_, ii. p.291]
[Footnote 117: Deloume, _Manieurs d'argent_, p. 317 foll.]
[Footnote 118: _pro lege Manilia_, 7. 18.]
[Footnote 120: _ad Att._ i. 17. 9. Crassus, no doubt a large shareholder, urged them on.]
[Footnote 121: In a letter to his brother, then governor of this province, Cicero contemplates the possibility of contracts being taken at a loss (_ad Q.F._ i. 1. 33), "publicis male redemptis." And in a letter of introduction in 46, he alludes to heavy losses suffered in this way, _ad Fam._ xiii. 10.]
[Footnote 124: _ad Familiares_, xiii. 65.]
[Footnote 125: _Ib._ xiii. 9. I have not adhered quite closely to his translation.]
[Footnote 126: "Qui est in operis ejus societatis," i.e. engaged as a subordinate agent.--Marquardt, _Staatsverwaltung_, ii. p. 291.]
[Footnote 128: See his article in _Dict. of Antiq._ ed. 2, s.v. argentarii.]
[Footnote 129: Augustus' grandfather was an argentarius (Suet. _Aug._ 2), yet his son could marry a Julia, and be elected to the consulship, which, however, he was prevented by death from filling.]
[Footnote 130: The word for this cheque is _perscriptio_. Cp. Cic. _ad Att_. ix. 12. 3 viri boni usuras perscribunt, i.e. draw the interest on their deposits.]
[Footnote 131: Cic. _ad Att_. xii. 24 and 27.]
[Footnote 132: Cic. _ad Fam_. xvi. 4 and 9]
[Footnote 133: Cic. _ad Att_. xiii. contains many letters of interest in this connexion.]
[Footnote 134: Cic. _ad Att._ xiii. 2. 3. Cp. xii. 25. In xii. 12 Cicero's divorced wife Terentia wishes to pay a debt by transferring to her creditor a debt of Cicero's to herself. Another way in which actual payment could be avoided was by paying interest on purchase-money instead of the lump sum. Cp. xii. 22.]
[Footnote 135: A good example of this in Velleius ii. 10 (house-rent).]
[Footnote 136: Cic. _de Officiis_, ii. 24, 84.]
[Footnote 137: Caesar, _de Bell. Civ._ iii. 1 and 20 foll.]
[Footnote 138: Deloume in his _Manieurs d'argent_ has a chapter on this (p. 58 foll.), but his details are not wholly to be relied on. Boissier's sketch in _Cicéron et ses amis_, 83 foll., is quite accurate.]
[Footnote 141: Deloume's attempt to prove that Cicero speculated with enormous profits seems to me to miss the mark.]