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Footnotes
Оглавление1 ↑ It is not certainly known what Cicero refers to here.
2 ↑ This refers to the same subject as the previous note.
3 ↑ "In any given case the litigant parties agreed upon a judex, or accepted him whom the magistrates proposed; a party had the power of rejecting a proposed judex, though there must have been some limit to this power." (Cic. Pro Cluent. 43.) Smith, Dict. Ant. v. Judex. What the limits to this power were, or under what restrictions it was exercised, we do not now know.
4 ↑ Because the provinces which involved all these obligations were distributed by lot to the different magistrates.
5 ↑ "The proconsul or praetor who had the administration of a province was attended by a quaestor. This quaestor had undoubtedly to perform the same offices as those who accompanied the armies into the field..They had also to levy those parts of the public revenue which were not farmed by the publicani... In the provinces they had the same jurisdiction as the curule aediles at Rome... The relation existing between a praetor or proconsul and his quaestor was according to ancient custom regarded as resembling that between a father and his son. When a quaestor died in his province, the praetor had the right to appoint a proquaestor in his stead."--Smith, Dict. Ant. p. 814, v. Quaestor.
6 ↑ The coast of Sicily being much infested by pirates, it was the custom of the praetors to fit out a fleet every year for the protection of trade. This fleet was provided by a contribution of the maritime towns, each of which usually furnished a ship, properly appointed with men and provisions; but Verres, for a sufficient bribe, often excused them from providing the ship, and always discharged as many men as were willing to pay for it. On one occasion a fleet was fitted out, and the command of it given, not to any Roman officer, but to Cleomenes, a Syracusan, who being both incapable, and also short of hands from the proceedings of Verres, was attacked in the port of Pachynus, two of his ships taken, and the rest burnt, after which the pirates sailed into the port of Syracuse, and returned back in safety; but Verres compelled all the captains of Cleomenes' fleet to sign a document testifying that this disaster had not happened through any deficiency in the equipment of their ships, which were fully provided with everything necessary, and then he put them to death.
7 ↑ This refers to the way in which Hortensius had once marked the judges whom he had bribed, as is mentioned in the speech against Caecilius.
8 ↑ The comitia centuriata for the election of consuls for the succeeding year were held on the 26th of July.
9 ↑ This arch had been erected to commemorate the victory obtained by Fabius over the Allobroges; and it was erected in the Via Sacra, as Cicero mentions in his speech Pro Plancio.
10 ↑ "The order in which the centuries voted was decided by lot, and that which gave its vote first was called centuria praerogativa."—Smith, Dict. Ant. p. 274, v. Comitia. "We also find the plural praerogativae, because they were of two kinds, juniorum and seniorum."—Riddle's Dict. in v. Praerogativa.
11 ↑ Caesonius was now aedile elect with Cicero. In the prosecution instituted by Cluentius against Oppianicus, while Verres was praetor urbanus, Oppianicus had tried to ensure his acquittal by bribing Stalenus, Ballus and Gutta, three of the Judges; but Caesonius divulged the corrupt nature of their motives, procured the conviction of Oppianicus, and the subsequent impeachment and punishment of the judges who had been bribed.
12 ↑ The Latin is ut comperindinem. "Comperendinare is, when the cause has been pleaded on each side, to order that on the third day both the defendant and the prosecutor appear to speak a second time."—Hottoman. "The parties appeared before the judex on the third day (comperendinatio), unless the praetor had deferred the judicium for some sufficient reason."—Smith, Dict. Ant. p. 529. v Judex.
13 ↑ That is to say, when the power of appealing to the tribunes of the people was taken away.
14 ↑ The senator was Dolabella.
15 ↑ Cicero several times in these orations takes credit to himself for his industry and intrepidity in striking all judges liable to suspicion off the list of those who were to try this case.
16 ↑ The Lex Acilia was carried by Marcus Acilius Glabrio, the father of this Glabrio, when tribune of the people; it abridged the proceedings in trials for extortion, and did not allow of the adjournment and delays which were permitted by previously existing laws.
17 ↑ "Sestertium", when used with a numeral adverb, stands for 100,000 sesterces; 400 × 100,000 = 40,000,000.
