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- ...C. Caesar.
- ...Q. Maximus.
THey who cut the capitoll marbles, do shew unto us that Caesar this yeere was third time Dictator with M. Lepidus General of the horse. From whome Dio differeth; who doth report that this yeere, Caesar was Dictator the 4 time, and Lepidus second time maister of the horse∣men: also that Lepidus fellow Consull with Cae∣sar, declared himselfe against all law, Generall of the horse. Thus much of the Dictatour. But as touching the Consuls this yeere, there is to be seene written in the Index or table of Dio, that the same yere Caesar bare his fourth Dicta∣tourship, & likewise his fourth Consulat with∣out colleague. In that historie also it appeareth, that Caesar presently entred upon his fourth Consulate, but bare it not throughout the whole yeere: and that so soone as he was retur∣ned to Rome out of Spain, he resigned & sub∣stituted in his place for the rest of the yeere, Q.Fabius Max. and Cn. Trebonius. With Dio, the evidences agree that are written in the ca∣pitoll fragments: wherein it appeareth that Cae∣sar was the fourth time Consull, and that with∣out a colleague; as Sigonius maketh interpre∣tation. For Cuspinians kalender together with the Sicilian registers, doe shew that Caesar was Consull now alone the fourth time. In like ma∣ner, Appian and Plutarch make mention of Caesar, who being Consull elect now the fourth time, led an armie into Spaine. As for Q. F••bi∣us, Suetonius calleth him a three month-Con∣sull. Dio saith moreover, that Caesar upon the death of Q.Fabius the Consull, declared the very last day of the yeere, C. Cannius to bee the Consull for those few houres that were behind. Whereof Cicero in his seventh booke of Epistles, writing to Curius, Macrobius in his second booke of Saturnalia, Tacitus in his eigh∣teenth booke, Plinie in his seventh, and Sueto∣nius in Caesar do make report.