to talk to the people,
to devote himself to harangues, and to love the applause of his own
theatre. He has not cared to renew his strength, trusting to his old
fortune. There remains of him but the shadow of his great name."

"The name of Caesar does not loom so large; nor is his character as a
general so high. But there is a spirit which can content itself with
no achievements; there is but one feeling of shame--that of not
conquering; a man determined, not to be controlled, taking his arms
wherever lust of conquest or anger may call him; a man never sparing
the sword, creating all things from his own good-fortune trusting
always the favors of the gods."

[1] Froude's Caesar, p. 444.

[2] Ibid., p. 428.

[3] Ad Att., lib. xiii., 28.

[4] Ad Att., lib. ix., 10.

[5] Froude, p. 365.

[6] Ad Att., lib. ii., 5: "Quo quidem uno ego ab istis
capi possum."

[7] The Cincian law, of which I shall have to speak
again, forbade Roman advocates to take any payment for
their services. Cicero expressly declares that he has
always obeyed that law. He accused others of disobeying
it, as, for instance, Hortensius. But no contemporary
has accused him. Mr. Collins refers to some books which
had been given to Cicero by his friend P[oe]tus. They are
mentioned in a letter to Atticus, lib. i., 20; and
Cicero, joking, says that he has consulted
Cincius--perhaps some descendant of him who made the law
145 years before--as to the legality of accepting the
present. But we have no reason for supposing that he had
ever acted as an advocate for P[oe]tus.

[8] Virgil, AEneid, i., 150:

"Ac, veluti magno in populo quum saepe coorta est
Seditio, saevitque animis ignobile vulgus;
Jamque faces, et saxa volant; furor arma ministrat:
Tum, pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem
Conspexere, silent, arrectisque auribus adstant;
Iste regit dictis animos, et pectora mulcet."

[9] The author is saying that a history from Cicero
would have been invaluable, and the words are "interitu
ejus utrum respublica an historia magis doleat."

[10] Quintilian tells us this, lib. ii., c. 5. The
passage of Livy is not extant. The commentators suppose
it to have been taken from a letter to his son.

[11] Velleius Paterculus, lib. ii., c. 34.

[12] Valerius Maximus, lib. iv., c. 2; 4.

[13] Pli