[41] Brutus, ca. xc.

[42] Tacitus, De Oratoribus, xxx.

[43] Quintilian, lib. xii., c. vi., who wrote about the
same time as this essayist, tells us of these three
instances of early oratory, not, however, specifying the
exact age in either case. He also reminds us that
Demosthenes pleaded when he was a boy, and that Augustus
at the age of twelve made a public harangue in honor of
his grandmother.

[44] Brutus, ca. xc.

[45] Brutus, xci.

[46] Quintilian, lib. xii., vi.: "Quum jam clarum
meruisset inter patronos, qui tum erant, nomen, in Asiam
navigavit, seque et aliis sine dubio eloquentiae ac
sapientiae magistris, sed praecipue tamen Apollonio
Moloni, quem Romae quoque audierat, Rhodi rursus
formandum ac velut recognendum dedit."

[47] Brutus, xci.

[48] The total correspondence contains 817 letters, of
which 52 were written to Cicero, 396 were written by
Cicero to Atticus, and 369 by Cicero to his friends in
general. We have no letters from Atticus to Cicero.

[49] Quintilian, lib. x., ca. 1.

[50] Clemens of Alexandria, in his exhortation to the
Gentiles, is very severe upon the iniquities of these
rites. "All evil be to him," he says, "who brought them
into fashion, whether it was Dardanus, or Eetion the
Thracian, or Midas the Phrygian." The old story which he
repeats as to Ceres and Proserpine may have been true,
but he was altogether ignorant of the changes which the
common-sense of centuries had produced.

[51] De Legibus, lib. ii., c. xiv.

[52] It was then that the foreign empire commenced, in
ruling which the simplicity and truth of purpose and
patriotism of the Republic were lost.

[53] The reverses of fortune to which Marius was
subjected, how he was buried up to his neck in the mud,
hiding in the marshes of Minturnae, how he would have
been killed by the traitorous magistrates of that city
but that he quelled the executioners by the fire of his
eyes; how he sat and glowered, a houseless exile, among
the ruins of Carthage--all which things happened to him
while he was running from the partisans of Sulla--are
among the picturesque episodes of history. There is a
tragedy called the _Wounds of Civil War_, written by
Lodge, who was born some eight years before Shakspeare,
in which the story of Marius is told