hat some bargain for such professional fee had
been made. Regarding Mr. Tyrrell as a critic always
fair, and almost always satisfactory, I am sorry to have
to differ from him; but it seems to me that he, too, has
been carried away by the feeling that in defending a
man's character it is best to give up some point.

[220] I have been amused at finding a discourse,
eloquent and most enthusiastic, in praise of Cicero and
especially of this oration, spoken by M. Gueroult at the
College of France in June, 1815. The worst literary
faults laid to the charge of Cicero, if committed by
him--which M. Gueroult thinks to be doubtful--had been
committed even by Voltaire and Racine! The learned
Frenchman, with whom I altogether sympathize, rises to
an ecstasy of violent admiration, and this at the very
moment in which Waterloo was being fought. But in truth
the great doings of the world do not much affect
individual life. We should play our whist at the clubs
though the battle of Dorking were being fought.

[221] Pro P. Sulla, iv.: "Scis me * * * illorum expertem
temporum et sermonum fuisse; credo, quod nondum penitus
in republica versabar, quod nondum ad propositum mihi
finem honoris perveneram. * * * Quis ergo intererat vestris
consiliis? Omnes hi, quos vides huic adesse et in primis
Q. Hortensius."

[222] Ad Att., lib. i., 12.

[223] Ad Att., lib. i., 13.

[224] Ibid., i., 14.

[225]Ibid., i., 16: "Vis scire quomodo minus quam soleam
praeliatus sum."

[226] "You have bought a fine house," said Clodius.
"There would be more in what you say if you could accuse
me of buying judges," replied Cicero. "The judges would
not trust you on your oath," said Clodius, referring to
the alibi by which he had escaped in opposition to
Cicero's oath. "Yes," replied Cicero, "twenty-five
trusted me; but not one of the thirty-one would trust
you without having his bribe paid beforehand."

[227] Ad Att., i., 14: "Proxime Pompeium sedebam.
Intellexi hominem moveri."

[228] Ibid.: "Quo modo [Greek: eneperpereusamen], novo
auditori Pompeio."

[229] Mommsen, book v., chap. vi. This probably has been
taken from the statement of Paterculus, lib. ii., 40:
"Quippe plerique non sine exercitu venturum in urbem
adfirmabant, et libertati publicae statuturum arbitrio