[Footnote 181: This law is noticed by Livy (ii. 8) and
Plutarch, (in Publiccla, tom. i. p. 187,) and it fully
justifies the public opinion on the death of Caesar which
Suetonius could publish under the Imperial government. Jure
caesus existimatur, (in Julio, c. 76.) Read the letters that
passed between Cicero and Matius a few months after the ides
of March (ad Fam. xi. 27, 28.)]