[sect. 8]
ut in secundis [gap in text] bonae: probably an iambic verse from an old poet. The quotation occurs, Att. 4.2.1, Ep. ad Brut. 1.10.2. Cf. Ribbeck, Trag. Rm. Frag. p. 274.
in re familiari: cf. note on 3 above.
quaedam domestica : the first reference in Cicero's letters to the trouble between himself and Terentia, which led eleven years later to a divorce. Cf. Att. 4.2.7 (written a month later) cetera, quae me sollicitant, μυστικώτερα sunt: amamur a fratre et a filia. The omission of Terentia's name here is very significant. The reference to domestic troubles immediately after a statement concerning the unsatisfactory condition of his property lends color to the hypothesis that the reckless management of Cicero's property by Terentia and her steward was one of the causes of the misunderstanding. Cf. Intr. 52.
quidam: the Optimates, whose sympathy, shown while he was in misfortune, had now given way to the same jealousy which they had evinced towards him in former years. Cf. voluntates nobilium, Ep. 1.2 n. They disapproved also of his political course after his return; cf. quod dicere, 6 n.