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- ...Cn. Domitius.
- ...M. Messala.
AGainst this yeere there stood in election and labored with much earnestnes & am∣bitious desire to be Consuls, Caius Memmius, Cn. Domitius. M. Messala and M. Scaurus, as Ci∣cero writeth to his brother Quintus. But at the last, even in the seventh moneth of this yeere there were created by meanes of an Interre∣gencie, M. Messala and Cn. Domitius. Neither had they bene chosen then; but that Q. Pom∣peius Rufus a Tribune of the commons, who still opposed himselfe to hinder and debarre all election, was by order from the Senate com∣mitted: and the Senate made countenaunce to do the like by the rest, as many as went about to crosse the said election. Thus much Dio. But Appian saith, that the common weale conti∣nued for eight months space in Anarchie with∣out any soveraigne magistrates of state. Plu∣tarch writeth, that in this so great extreamitie of daunger, Lucilius a Tribune of the com∣mons, preferred a bill for the creating of Cneus Pompeius Dictatour, who should redresse all enormities and set upright the state againe: but Cato gainsaied it, and so nothing was effected. Dio saith moreover, that the Tribunes of the commones mooved for the chusing not of a Dictatour onely, but also of militarie Tribunes in Consuls authoritie: but through the earnest labour of Pompeius, Consuls were created, Mes∣sala and Calvinus, which surnames stand to bee seene upon the Sicilian records. Also in the ca∣pitoll monuments, written it is thus. Cn. Do∣mitius Calvinus sonne of M. nephew of Marcus, ann. 708 and 717.