* Cum telo esse, " to wear arms :*'
forbidden by the Twelve Tables, and
by later laws. It became however
common in these times, and was again
prohibited by a law of Pompeius in
his sole consulship, ▲.u. 702. The



conspirators who murdered Cesar
carried daggers in the case which be-
longed to the stylus. Cum telo esse is
the 'antique formnlai^ Cic. pro MiUm,
4. ipsa lex esse cum telo hominis De-
cidendi caosa vetat. Comp. in Catil,
i. 6 ; and the plurases esse cum togOy
cum imperio,

^ Jubere^ i. e. cum telo esse.
• FesHnare, ** he was busy."

' Intempesta nocte, "late at night."
Servius, in Virg. JEn. iii. 687, ex-
plains this phrase, nox intempesta
dicta est media, tanquam inactuosa;
"unseasonable for action." Macrob.
8(d. i. 3. non idonea rebus gerendis.
10 PerM, Porcium Lctcam. Itap^
pears from Cicero that the meeting
was held in the house of Lseca. The
time of meeting is indicated by Cicero
pro Sulla. 18. ea nocte quae consecuta
est posterum diem nonarum Novem-
bris, 6—7 Nov. 691=11 Jan. b.c. 62.
(allowing for tffe error in the calen-
dar before its reformation by Julius
Caesar.)

^* J^': may mean apud cum, or



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