Note 1155 — Chapter V · CONSULSHIP OF CÆSAR AND BIBULUS. (695.)

“Take notice, I beg you, that I paid into the hands of the farmers of the revenues at Ephesus twenty-two millions of sestertii, a sum to which I have a perfect right, and that Pompey laid hands on the whole. I have made up my mind on the subject—whether wisely or unwisely matters not.” (Cicero, Oration against Piso, xxxvii. 16.)