v., 12: "O fortunata mors, quae naturae
debita, pro patria est potissimum reddita."

[224] Ad Div., lib. xi., 9.

[225] Ibid., lib. xi., 10.

[226] Ibid., lib. xi., 11.

[227] Ibid., lib. xi., 18.

[228] Ad Div., lib. x., 34.

[229] Ad Brutum, lib. i., 4.

[230] Ad Div., lib. xi., 20: "Ipsum Caesarem nihil sane de te
questum, nisi quod diceret, te dixisse, laudandum
adolescentem, ornandum, tollendum."

[231] Ad Div., lib. xii., 10.

[232] Appian, lib. iii., 92.

[233] Dio Cassius, lib. xlvi., 46.

[234] Vell. Paterculus, lib. ii., 65.

[235] Vell. Paterculus, lib. ii., 66: "Repugnante Caesare, sed
frustra adversus duos, instauratum Sullani exempli malum,
proscriptio."

[236] Vell. Paterculus, lib. ii., 66: "Nihil tam indignum
illo tempore fuit, quam quod aut Caesar aliquem proscribere
coactus est, aut ab ullo Cicero proscriptus est."

[237] Suetonius, Augustus, 27: "In quo restitit quidem
aliquamdiu collegis, ne qua fieret proscriptio, sed inceptam
utroque acerbius exercuit."

[238] Phil., iv., ca. xviii.

[239] In the following list I have divided the latter,
making the Moral Essays separate from the Philosophy.

[240] I have given here those treatises which are always
printed among the works of Cicero.

[241] De Inventione, lib. ii., 4.

[242] Quintilian, in his Proaemium or Preface: "Oratorem
autem instituimus illum perfectum, qui esse nisi vir bonus
non potest." It seems as though there had almost been the
question whether the perfect orator could exist, although
there was no question he had never done so as yet.

[243] Quint., lib. iii., 1: "Praecipuum vero lumen sicut
eloquentiae, ita praeceptis quoque ejus, dedit unicum apud nos
specimen orandi, docendique oratorias artes, M. Tullius."
And in Tacitus, De Oratoribus, xxx.: "Ita ex multa
eruditione, ex pluribus artibus," he says, speaking of
Cicero, "et omnium rerum scientia exundat, et exuberat illa
admirabilis eloquentia; neque oratoris vis et facultas,
sicut ceterarum rerum, angustis et brevibus terminis
cluditur; sed is est orator, qui de omni quaestione pulchre,
et ornate, et ad persuadendum apte dicere, pro dignitate
rerum, ad utilitatem temporum, cum voluptate audientium
possit." This has not the ring of Tacitus, but it shows
equally well the opinion of the day.

[244] De Oratore, lib. i., ca. xi.

[245] Ibid., lib. i., ca. xxv.