[sect. 4]
Galli Canini: L. Caninius Gallus, as tribune in 56 B.C.
, proposed that the restoration of King Ptolemy should be entrusted to Pompey (Q. fr. 2.2.3). In the year following his tribuneship (55 B.C.
) he was attacked on some political charge by the enemies of Pompey, and Cicero defended him, doubtless at Pompey's request. With some two or three exceptions (e.g. Cic. de Or. 2.253) the cognomen is never placed before the nomen in formal Latin in the Ciceronian period but this order is common enough in colloquial Latin e.g. Bassus Caecilius, Ep. LXXXVI 4 Pollio Asinius; Ep. XCVIII Cimber autem Tullius, Fam. 6 12 2 Balbi quoque Corneli, Fam 8.11.2 in Horace we read Fuscus Aristius, Musa Antonius, etc., in Livy, Gemmus Servilius, Antias Valerius, etc. In the writers of the Silver Age this innovation, like many others, was accepted without question.
ambitio: e.g. in his purpose to defend Catiline in 65 B.C.
; cf. Ep. II.1.
rogatu eorum: as when he defended Vatinius in 54 B.C.
at the request of Caesar (Fam. 1.9.19), although he had bitterly attacked him in an oration delivered only two years before.
