Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ For, as to myself, if your comrade Publius will let me, I think of playing the sophist: if he forces me, I shall at least defend myself, and, as is the trick of my trade, I publicly promise to
Strike back at him who first is wroth with me. [11] May the country only be on my side: it has had from me, if not more than its due, at least more than it ever demanded. ”

“ Believe that I have learnt nothing from experience, nothing from Theophrastus, [8] if you don't shortly see the time of our government an object of regret. For if the power of the senate was disliked, what do you think will be the case when it has passed, not to the people, but to three unscrupulous men? So let them then make whom they choose consuls, tribunes, and even finally clothe Vatinius's men with the double-dyed purple [9] of the priesthood, you will see before long that the great men will be not only those who have made no false step, [10] but even he who did make a mistake, Cato. ”

“ She is to talk to her brother about Cicero. She is "Iuno" perhaps as an enemy—as Bacon called the Duchess of Burgundy Henry VII.'s a Iuno—or perhaps for a less decent reason, as coniux sororque of Publius.↑ Pompey, who was proud of having taken Jerusalem. Traductor ad plebem, said of the magistrate presiding at the comitia for adoption.↑ Cicero himself. ”