ssed his, he was accounted the most eloquent of
all the Romans. He was Verres's counsel in the prosecution conducted
against him by Cicero. Seneca relates that his memory was so great
that he could come out of an auction and repeat the catalogue
backwards. He died B.C. 50.

68 This treatise is one which has not come down to us, but which had
been lately composed by Cicero in order to comfort himself for the
loss of his daughter.

69 The epigram is--

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