xxxvii., ca.

38, but he adds that Cicero was more hated than ever because of the oath he took: [Greek: kai ho men kai ek toutou poly mallon emisethe.] [214] It is the only letter given in the collection as having been addressed direct to Pompey.

In two letters written some years later to Atticus, B.C.49, lib.
viii., 11, and lib.viii., 12, he sends copies of a correspondence between himself and Pompey and two of the Pompeian generals.
[215] Lib.v., 7.

It is hardly necessary to explain that the younger Scipio and Laelius were as famous for their friendship as Pylades and Orestes.

The "Virtus Scipiadae et mitis sapientia Laeli" have been made famous to us all by Horace.
[216] These two brothers, neither of whom was remarkable for great qualities, though they were both to be Consuls, were the last known of the great family of the Metelli, a branch of the "Gens Caecilia." Among them had been many who had achieved great names for themselves in Roman history, on account of the territories added to the springing Roman Empire by their victories.