in
cubiculo socius; in convivio dominus, ac tum maxime,
quum, accubante praetextato praetoris filio, in convivio
saltare nudus c[oe]perat."

[126] A great deal is said of the _Cybea_ in this and
the last speech. The money expended on it was passed
through the accounts as though the ship had been built
for the defence of the island from pirates, but it was
intended solely for the depository of the governor's
plunder.

[127] In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib. iv., vii.

[128] In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib. iv., lvii.

[129] In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib. v., lxvi.: "Facinus
est vinciri civem Romanum; scelus verberari; prope
parricidium necari; quid dicam in crucem tollere!"

[130] In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib. v., lxv.

[131] In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib. v., xx.: "Onere suo
plane captam atque depressam."

[132] In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib. v., xxvi.

[133] Ibid., xxviii.

[134] Pro Fonteio, xiii.

[135] De Oratore, lib. ii., lix.: "Perspicitis, hoc genus
quam sit facetum, quam elegans, quam oratorium, sive
habeas vere, quod narrare possis, quod tamen, est
mendaciunculis aspergendum, sive fingas." Either invent
a story, or if you have an old one, add on something so
as to make it really funny. Is there a parson, a bishop,
an archbishop, who, if he have any sense of humor about
him, does not do the same?

[136] Cicero, Pro Cluentio, l., explains very clearly
his own idea as to his own speeches as an advocate, and
may be accepted, perhaps, as explaining the ideas of
barristers of to-day. "He errs," he says, "who thinks
that he gets my own opinions in speeches made in law
courts; such speeches are what the special cases
require, and are not to be taken as coming from the
advocate as his own."

[137] When the question is discussed, we are forced
rather to wonder how many of the great historical doings
of the time are not mentioned, or are mentioned very
slightly, in Cicero's letters. Of Pompey's treatment of
the pirates, and of his battling in the East, little or
nothing is said, nothing of Caesar's doings in Spain.
Mention is made of Caesar's great operations in Gaul
only in reference to the lieutenancy of Cicero's brother
Quintus, and to the employment of his young friend
Trebatius. Nothing is said of the manner of Caesar'