[115] Ad Atticum, lib. iii.; ad Fam. lib. xiv.; pro Sext. 22; pro Dom. 36; Plutarch, in Vita. It is curious to observe how he converts the alleviating circumstances of his case into exaggerations of his misfortune: he writes to Atticus: "As to your many fierce objurgations of me, for my weakness of mind, I ask you, what aggravation is wanting to my calamity? Who else has ever fallen from so high a position, in so good a cause, with so large an intellect, influence, popularity, with all good men so powerfully supporting him, as I?"--iii. 10. Other persons would have reckoned the justice of their cause, and the countenance of good men, alleviations of their distress; and so, when others were concerned, he himself thought. Vid. pro Sext. 12. [116] Ad Atticum, ix. 18. [117] Ibid. vii. 11, ix. 6, x. 8 and 9, xi, 9, etc. [118] Macrobius, Saturnalia, ii. 3. [119] Ad Atticum, xi. 8, 9, 10 and 12. [120] Ibid. xi. 13. [121] Ad Fam. iv. 14; Middleton, vol. ii. p. 149. [122] Ibid. [123] Ad Fam. iv. 6. [124] Ad Atticum, xii. 15, etc [125] Ad Atticum, xiii. 20. [126] Ibid. xii. 40 and 41. [127] His want of jealousy towards his rivals was remarkable; this was exemplified in his esteem for Hortensius, and still more so in his conduct towards Calvus. See Ad Fam. xv. 21. [128] Vol. ii. p. 525, 4to. [129] Pro Planc.; Middleton, vol. i. p. 108. [130] C. 39. [131] Ad Fam. vi. 6, vii. 3. [132] Plutarch, in Vita Cic. See also in Vita Pomp. [133] Vid. Dr. Whately in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana. [134] Lactantius, Inst. iii. 16. [135] Plutarch, in Vita Caton. See also de Invent. i. 36. [136] Paterculus, i. 12, etc. Plutarch, in Vitt. Lucull. et Syll. [137] Gravin. Origin. Juris Civil. lib. i. c. 44. [138] Quinct. xii. 2. Auct. Dialog. de Orator. 31. [139] De Nat. Deor. i. 4; de Off. i. 1; de Fin.; init. Acad. Quaest. init. etc. [140] Tusc Quaest. i. 3; ii. 3; Acad. Quaest. i. 2; de Nat. Deor. i. 21; de Fin. i. 3, etc.; de Clar. Orat. 35. [141] Lucullus, 2; de Fin. i. 1-3; Tusc Quaest. ii. 1, 2; iii. 2; v. 2; de Legg. i. 22-24; de Off. ii. 2; de Orat. 41, etc. [142] Middleton's Life, vol. ii. p. 254. [143] Ad Quinct. fratr. iii. 3. [144] Tusc. Quaest, v. 2. [145] De Off. i. 5. _init._ [146] Johnson's observations on Addison's writings may be well applied to those of Cicero, who would have been eminently successful in short miscellaneous essays, like those of the Spectator, had the manners of the age allowed it. [147] Orat iii. 4; Tusc. Quaest. ii. 3; de Off. i. 1. Paradox. _praefat._ Quinct. Instit. xii. 2. [148] Article, Plato, in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana. [149] Acad. Quaest. i. 10, etc.; Lucullus, 5; de Legg. i. 20; iii. 3, etc. [150] Acad. Quaest. i. 4, 12, 13; Lucullus, 5 and 23; de Nat. Deor. i. 5; de Fin. ii. 1; de Orat. iii. 18. Augustin. contra Acad. ii. 6. Plutarch, in Colot. 26.