[1]: See the Publicola, chapter vi.
[2]: In 439 B.C. Cf. Livy, iv. 13 f.
[3]: Cf. Cato the Younger, chapters xxxiv., xxxvi.
[4]: See the Pompey, chapter xvi.
[5]: At Pharsalus in Thessaly, in August of 48 B.C.
[6]: Cf. Cato the Younger, xxiv. 1 f.
[7]: Probably an error, either of Plutarch’s, or of the MSS. In 47 B.C. Brutus pleaded unsuccessfully before Caesar the cause of Deiotarus, king of Galatia. Coraës would read Γαλατῶν for Λιβύων.
[8]: Cf. Cicero ad Att. xiv. 1, 2.
[9]: See the Crassus, xviii. ff.
[10]: Cf. Caesar, lxii. 5.
[11]: Cf. Caesar, xliii. 1.
[12]: Chapter lxi.
[13]: Chapter vii. 1-3.
[14]: He is called Quintus Ligarius in the Cicero, xxxix. 5.
[15]: Cf. Caesar, chapter lxiv.
[16]: Cf. Caesar, chapter lxiii.
[17]: Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, colleague of Caesar in the consulship of 59 B.C.
[18]: Cf. Pompey, xl. 5.
[19]: March 15, 44 B.C.
[20]: Cf. Caesar, lxiii. 5.
[21]: In Caesar, lxvi. 3, Brutus Albinus is incorrectly said to have detained Antony in conversation. Cf. Appian, B.C. ii. 117, and Cicero’s letter to Trebonius (Epist. x. 28).
[22]: Clodius was killed in a street-brawl with Milo, 52 B.C. Cf. Cicero, xxv. 1.
[23]: Iliad, vi. 429 f.; 491.
[24]: Cf. chapter xiii. 2.
[25]: Patroclus to Hector, Iliad, xvi. 849. Leto’s son was Apollo, and the name was thought to mean Destroyer.
[26]: A mistake for Appuleius (Cicero, Philippics, x. 11; Appian, B.C. iii. 63), who was quaestor in Asia.
[27]: As it did the Ten Thousand in Armenia (Xenophon, Anab. iv. 5, 7 f.).
[28]: Cf., for example, Morals, pp. 691 f.
[29]: About the middle of 43 B.C.
[30]: Cf. Herodotus, i. 176.
[31]: Cf. Pompey, chapters lxxvii.-lxxx.
[32]: In the early part of 42 B.C.
[33]: Iliad, i. 259.
[34]: A follower of Antisthenes was called a Cynic, or dog-like, probably from the coarse and brutal manners affected by the school.
[35]: Cf. Caesar, lxix. 5-7.
[36]: A solemn review, with ceremonies of purification.
[37]: Cassius had been quaestor for Crassus on the disastrous Parthian expedition in 53 B.C. (Crassus, xviii. 5).
[38]: The name of a Thracian tribe (Herodotus, vii. 73).
[39]: See chapter xxxvi.
[40]: Cf. Cato the Younger, lxxiii. 3.
[41]: Cf. Antony, lxix. 1.
[42]: Euripides, Medeia, 334 (Kirchhoff).
[43]: Cf. chapter xii. 3 ff.
[44]: Cf. Cato the Younger, lxv. 4 f.; lxxiii. 4.
[45]: The battles at Philippi occurred in 42 B.C., and Brutus was forty-three years of age when he died.
[46]: Suetonius (Divus Augustus, 13) says that the head of Brutus was sent to Rome to be thrown at the feet of Caesar’s statue.
[47]: De factis mem. iv. 6, 5.