C.]
[Footnote 500: Cic. _Brutus_, 28. 107, where he speaks of having known
the poet himself.]
[Footnote 501: _ad_ Att. ii. 19.]
[Footnote 502: _Pro Sestio_, 55. 117 foll.]
[Footnote 503: _ad Q. Fratr_. iii. 5.]
[Footnote 504: It is only fair to say that this information comes from
a letter of Asinius Pollio to Cicero (_ad Fam_. x. 32. 3), and as
Pollio was one who had a word of mockery for every one, we may
discount the story of the tears.]
[Footnote 505: Tibicines, usually mistranslated flute-players; this
characteristic Italian instrument was really a primitive oboe played
with a reed, and usually of the double form (two pipes with a
connected mouthpiece), still sometimes seen in Italy.]
[Footnote 506: See above, p. 70.]
[Footnote 507: Val. Max. ii. 4. 2; Livy, _Epit_. 48.]
[Footnote 508: Tacitus, _Ann_. xiv. 20.]
[Footnote 509: Tertullian, _de Spectaculis_, 10; Pliny, _N.H._ viii.
20.]
[Footnote 510: See the excellent account in Huelsen, vol. iii. of
Jordan's _Topographie_, p.
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