+The Peroration.+ ‘Such a passage speaks to us with a living impression of unity and directness which we acknowledge without question. We admire and ask for nothing more.’ --Nettleship. B. _On the Murder of Cicero, by order of Antonius._ Par scelus admisit Phariis Antonius armis: Abscidit voltus ensis uterque sacros. Illud, laurigeros ageres cum laeta triumphos, Hoc tibi, Roma, caput, cum loquereris, erat. 4 Antoni tamen est peior quam causa Pothini: Hic facinus domino praestitit, ille sibi. MARTIAL, _Epig._ III. lxvi. [Linenotes: 1. +Par Phariis armis+ = _which matches (that committed by) the armed hand of an Egyptian_, i.e. Pothinus (the guardian of the young king) who planned the murder of Pompeius, when he fled to Egypt 48 B.C. +sacros+: _consecrated_ to Rome from their public services. 3-4. +Illud caput+ = Pompeius. +hoc caput+ = Cicero. Cf. _Epig._ v. lxix: _Quid gladium demens_ +Romana+ _stringis_ +in ora+? 6. +domino+, sc. Ptolemaeus, King of Egypt, jointly with Cleopatra.] B68 CICERO. A. _Cicero as Orator and Poet._ Eloquium ac famam Demosthenis aut Ciceronis Incipit optare et totis Quinquatribus optat 115 Quisquis adhuc uno parcam colit asse Minervam, Quem sequitur custos angustae vernula capsae. Eloquio sed uterque perit orator, utrumque Largus et exundans leto dedit ingenii fons. Ingenio manus est et cervix caesa, nec umquam 120 Sanguine causidici maduerunt rostra pusilli. ‘O fortunatam natam me consule Romam’: Antoni gladios potuit contemnere, si sic Omnia dixisset. Ridenda poemata malo Quam te, conspicuae divina Philippica famae, 125 Volveris a prima quae proxima. JUVENAL, _Satires_, x. 114-126. [Linenotes: 114-117. Boys at school long to be a Demosthenes or a Cicero. 115. +totis Quinquatribus+, i.e. during all the five days of the Quinquatria, an annual feast of Minerva, March 19-23: it was always a holiday time at schools, and the school year began at the close of it. 116. +parcam Minervam+ = _a cheap kind of learning_, and +uno asse+ = _an entrance fee of one_ +as+. But Duff says +as+ here = +stips+, i.e. the boy’s contribution to the goddess of wisdom, who can make him wise, and +parcam+ (= _economical_), transferred from +asse+ to +Minervam+. 117. +vernula+ = _a little home-born slave_, +capsa+ a circular box of beech-wood, used for the transport of books. 121. +causidici pusilli+ = _of a petty pleader_, as opposed to orator. 122. From Cicero’s poem _de suo consulatu_. Another line quoted in the 2nd Philippic is _Cedant arma togae, concedat laurea laudi_. 124. +Ridenda poemata malo+, i.e. they are better as being safer. Juvenal himself refutes this argument: _Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas._] B. _Cicero as Advocate._