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Deor. i. 6; de Div. i. 4, de Fat. 1. Sciopp. in Olivet. See Plutarch, in Vitâ. In Catil. iii. 3-5. Pro Cæl. 24. Philipp. ix. 3. Pro Cæl. 6. Ibid. 14. Pro Quinct. 1, and In Verr. Act i. 13 Pro Cluent 1. Pro Leg. Manil. 1. Pro Milon. 1. Pro Deiotar. 2. Pro Milon. 14, etc. Pro Muræn. 9. Pro Cæl. 7, etc. In Verr. vi. 2, etc. Contra Rull. ii. 6, 7. Pro Rabir. 4. Pro Milon. init. et alibi.

Middleton's Life, vol. i. p. 13. 4to; de Clar. Orat. 89. Ibid. Pro Muræna, 11; de Orat. i. g. In Catil. iii. 6; in Pis. 3; pro Sylla, 30; pro Dom. 37; de Harusp. resp. 23; ad Fam. xv. 4. De Clar. Orat. 91. Middleton's Life, vol. i. p. 42, 4to. Plutarch, in Vitâ. Warburton, Div. Leg. lib, iii. sec. 3; and Vossius. de Nat. Logic. c. viii. sec. 22. Pro Planc. 26; in Ver. vi. 14. Pro Dom. 57, 58.

The distinction had to be explained with much periphrasis, because the Arabic word 'Câtil' means a slayer, and is given indiscriminately to all who kill. He caught my meaning sooner than I had expected. 'Ah! he said. 'Your Honour thought from what I said that they were "cutters of the road," or hired assassins, who kill men for gain. Those are the greater criminals, whose punishment is death.

MAELIUM: a rich plebeian, who distributed corn in time of famine and was charged with courting the people in order to make himself a king. Ahala summoned him before the dictator, and because he did not immediately obey, killed him with his own hand. For this, Ahala became one of the heroes of his nation. See Liv. 4, 13. Cicero often mentions him with praise. Cf. in Catil. I. 3; p. Sestio 143, etc.

Leg. agr. 2, 90 omnibus domesticis externisque bellis; in Catil 2, 11 omnia sunt externa unius virtute pacata; domesticum bellum manet, intus insidiae sunt. The practice of reading military history was common among Roman commanders; see for instance Acad. 2, 3 of Lucullus; the practice is ridiculed by Marius in Sall. Iug. 85.

A copy of this scarce work, which treats very learnedly of "the spiritual mysteries of the gospel veiled under the temple," I have lately been, by good fortune, enabled to add to my library. Veluti pecora, quae natura finxit prona et obedientia ventri. SALLUST, Bell. Catil. i. I Kings vi. 7.