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In our passage Cic. seems to assume only one dictatorship. The story of Cincinnatus at the plough is told in Livy 3, 26. FACTUM: the technical term was dicere dictatorem, since he was nominated by the consul on the advice of the senate. DICTATORIS: in apposition with cuius.
Certe ego in Hortensia gente unum, dictatorem reperio, et Consulem unum; dictatorem anno urbis 467 secessione plebis; consulem, Q. Hortensium hujus avum. Sed intellegit fortasse majores suos etiam ex gente materna."
Atque hic status, qui una voce omnium gemitur neque verbo cujusdam sublevatur." To Atticus, ii. 18. "In concionem ascendit et Pompeium privatus dictatorem appellavit. Propius nihil est factum quam ut occideretur." Cicero, Ad Quintum Fratrem, i. 2. To Athens, ii, 21. In this comparison Cicero betrays his naive conviction that Pompey was indebted to him and to his praises for his reputation.
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