29/33 [109] [Footnote 103: Tacit.Annal.vi.11.Euseb. Dion Cassius, in the oration of Maecenas, (l.lvii.p. 675,) describes the prerogatives of the praefect of the city as they were established in his own time.] [Footnote 104: The fame of Messalla has been scarcely equal to his merit. In the earliest youth he was recommended by Cicero to the friendship of Brutus. |