Note 671 — Chapter IV · EVENTS OF THE YEAR 699.

Plutarch, Cato, 49.—Dio Cassius, XXXIX. 33, 35.—Dio Cassius pretends erroneously that the imperium in the province of Gaul was only continued to Cæsar by a sort of favour, and but for three years, when his partisans murmured at seeing that Crassus and Pompey thought only for themselves. He does not mention the conference of Lucca, which is attested by Suetonius, Plutarch, and Appian. He forgets that Trebonius, Cæsar’s creature, was one of his most devoted lieutenants in the Civil War. We think that the testimony of the other historians is to be preferred.