[sect. 3]
istum: i.e. Caesarem.
ille: i.e. Pompeius.
legibus [gap in text] ferendis: i.e. the laws whose passage Caesar effected in his consulship in 59 B.C.
For Pompey's attitude toward these laws, cf. Att. 2.16.2. When Caesar's agrarian law, assigning lands to Pompey's veterans, came before the people, Bibulus and Cato, the leaders of the opposition, were treated with great roughness; cf. Plut. Cat. Min. 32; Suet. Iul. 20.
contra auspicia: to the many attempts which the Optimates made to postpone the comitia on religious grounds (cf. Dio Cass. 38.6) Caesar paid little heed.
Galliae adiunctor: Caesar's third province (cf. Intr. 13) was voluntarily added by the senate, probably through the influence of Pompey.
gener: sc. by his marriage to Caesar's daughter Julia.
ille augur: Pompey was present at the meeting of the comitia curiata when Clodius was adopted, and, as augur, could have prevented the adoption. Cf. Att. 2.12.1.
restituendi mei, etc.: the reference is to Cicero's exile. Although Pompey exerted himself personally to secure Cicero's recall, he had not interfered to prevent his banishment; cf. Att. 10.4.3 qui se nihil contra huius (i.e. Caesaris) voluntatem aiebat facere posse.
ille [gap in text] propagator : through the lex Pompeia Licinia (cf. Intr. 26), passed in Pompey's consulship, and perhaps proposed by him. Upon substantives in -tor, cf. Intr. 75. See also auctor, adiunctor, adiutor, and defensor in this passage.
ut [gap in text] haberetur: i.e. that Caesar might be accepted as a candidate without coming to Rome. Cf. Ep. XLII. introd. note, and Intr. 26.
Marco Marcello: one of the consuls in 51 B.C.
finienti : by a bill looking to the displacement of Caesar Mar. 1, 50 B.C.
; cf. Fam. 8.8.9.
provincias: cf. Galliae adiunctor, above.
condiciones: apparently the last proposals for peace were those submitted to the Pompeians at Teanum Sidicinum, Jan.25, to the effect that Caesar should disband his army, hand over the provinces to his successors, and sue for the consulship in the regular way, while Pompey was to depart for Spain, and Italy to disarm; cf. Fam. 16.12.3; Caes. B. C. 1.8-11.
hoc, etc.: the desertion of Rome, the flight of Pompey, and the prospective abandonment of Italy.
