Marcus Tullius Cicero,
Letters to Atticus — 2.25 (LI)
“ Nothing can be more desperate than the position of politics, nothing more unpopular than the authors of it. I—as I think, hope, and imagine--am safe behind a rampart of goodwill of the strongest kind. ”
Marcus Tullius Cicero,
Letters to Atticus — 2.25 (LI)
“ Eur. Phoen. 393. "Follies of those in power we needs must bear." ↑ L. Valerius Flaccus, as praetor in B.C. 63, had assisted Cicero in the Catiline conspiracy. He was now being tried for embezzlement in Asia, and was defended by the famous Q. Hortensius (Hortalus) and Cicero—the only extant speech of this year. ”
