ny, Hist. Nat., lib. vii., xxxi., 30.

[14] Martial, lib. xiv., 188.

[15] Lucan, lib. vii., 62:

"Cunctorum voces Romani maximus auctor
Tullius eloquii, cujus sub jure togaque
Pacificas saevus tremuit Catilina secures,
Pertulit iratus bellis, cum rostra forumque
Optaret passus tam longa silentia miles
Addidit invalidae robur facundia causae."

[16] Tacitus, De Oratoribus, xxx.

[17] Juvenal, viii., 243.

[18] Demosthenes and Cicero compared.

[19] Quintilian, xii., 1.

[20] "Repudiatus vigintiviratus." He refused a position
of official value rendered vacant by the death of one
Cosconius. See Letters to Atticus, 2,19.

[21] Florus, lib. iv., 1. In a letter from Essex to Foulke
Greville, the writing of which has been attributed to
Bacon by Mr. Spedding, Florus is said simply to have
epitomized Livy (Life, vol. ii., p. 23). In this I think
that Bacon has shorn him of his honors.

[22] Florus, lib. iv., 1.

[23] Sallust, Catilinaria, xxiii.

[24] I will add the concluding passage from the pseudo
declamation, in order that the reader may see the nature
of the words which were put into Sallust's mouth: "Quos
tyrannos appellabas, eorum nunc potentiae faves; qui
tibi ante optumates videbantur, eosdem nunc dementes ac
furiosos vocas; Vatinii caussam agis, de Sextio male
existumas; Bibulum petulantissumis verbis laedis, laudas
Caesarem; quem maxume odisti, ei maxume obsequeris.
Aliud stans, aliud sedens, de republica sentis; his
maledicis, illos odisti; levissume transfuga, neque in
hac, neque illa parte fidem habes." Hence Dio Cassius
declared that Cicero had been called a turncoat. [Greek:
kai automalos onomazeto.]

[25] Dio Cassius, lib. xlvi., 18: [Greek: pros hen
kai auten toiautas epistolas grapheis hoias an grapseien
aner skoptoles athuroglorros ... kai proseti kai to
stoma autou diaballein epecheirese tosaute aselgeia
kai akatharsia para panta ton bion chromenos hoste mede
ton sungenestaton apechesthai, alla ten te gunaika
proagogeuein kai ten thugatera moicheuein.]

[26] As it happens, De Quincey specially calls Cicero a
man of conscience. "Cicero is one of the very few pagan
statesmen who can be described as a thoroughly
conscientious man," he says. The purport of his
illogical essay on Cicero is no