Note 793 — Chapter I · (654-684.)

These reports, like other calumnies, were propagated by Cæsar’s enemies, such as Curio and Bibulus, and repeated in the ridiculous annals of Tanusius Geminus (Suetonius, Cæsar, 9), the authority of which Seneca despised. “Thou knowest that not much account is made of these annals of Tanusius, and how they are designated.” (Seneca, Epistle 93.)—Catullus (xxxvi. 1) gives us that term of contempt to which Seneca alludes (cacata charta).