1. The triumvir, killed at Carrhae 53 B.C.

2. The orator, Cicero’s chief opponent in the Verres case (Chapter 1).

1. The ancient link between patron and client, with their mutual obligations sanctified by custom and religion, had been extended to whole communities. Cicero deplores the fact that states enjoying Roman citizen rights should need someone to safeguard their interests. Marcus Satrius was a supporter of Antony.

1. Modern Italian morra. One player quickly opens any number of his fingers, the other simultaneously tries to open the same number of his own.

1. The great Marius – victor over Jugurtha king of Numidia and the Germans, seven times consul, d. 86 B.C. But the true conqueror of Jugurtha was believed by the conservatives to be Metellus (consul 109 B.C.).

2. See p. 184: to counteract financial panic due to the issue of plated coins purporting to be silver, Gratidianus devised means (? the affixation of small stamps) of distinguishing good from bad money.

1. Pompey in 59 B.C. had married Caesar’s daughter Julia, as part of the agreement of the First Triumvirate (see Genealogical Table, p. 254).

1. See above, p. 116.

2. From an unidentified tragedy of Accius concerning the House of Agamemnon – the grandson of Pelops, who was the son of Tantalus.