[217] Ad Div., lib. xii., 7. This is in a letter to Cassius, in which he says, "Promisi enim et prope confirmavi, te non expectasse nec expectaturum decreta nostra, sed te ipsum tuo more rempublicam defensurum." [218] Appian, lib. iii., ca. 50. The historian of the civil wars declares that Piso spoke up for Antony, saying that he should not be damnified by loose statements, but should be openly accused. Feelings ran very high, but Cicero seems to have held his own. [219] Ad Div., lib. x., 27. [220] Suetonius, Augustus, lib. xi. [221] Tacitus, Ann., lib. i., x.: "Caesis Hirtio et Pansa, sive hostis illos, seu Pansam venenum vulneri affusum, sui milites Hirtium et, machinator doli, Caesar abstulerat." [222] Philip., xiv., 3: "Omnibus, quanquam ruit ipse suis cladibus, pestem, vastitatem, cruciatum, tormenta denuntiat." [223] Philip., xiv., 12: "O fortunata mors, quae naturae debita, pro patria est potissimum reddita." [224] Ad Div., lib. xi., 9. [225] Ibid., lib. xi., 10. [226] Ibid., lib. xi., 11. [227] Ibid., lib. xi., 18. [228] Ad Div., lib. x., 34. [229] Ad Brutum, lib. i., 4. [230] Ad Div., lib. xi., 20: "Ipsum Caesarem nihil sane de te questum, nisi quod diceret, te dixisse, laudandum adolescentem, ornandum, tollendum." [231] Ad Div., lib. xii., 10. [232] Appian, lib. iii., 92. [233] Dio Cassius, lib. xlvi., 46. [234] Vell. Paterculus, lib. ii., 65. [235] Vell. Paterculus, lib. ii., 66: "Repugnante Caesare, sed frustra adversus duos, instauratum Sullani exempli malum, proscriptio." [236] Vell. Paterculus, lib. ii., 66: "Nihil tam indignum illo tempore fuit, quam quod aut Caesar aliquem proscribere coactus est, aut ab ullo Cicero proscriptus est." [237] Suetonius, Augustus, 27: "In quo restitit quidem aliquamdiu collegis, ne qua fieret proscriptio, sed inceptam utroque acerbius exercuit." [238] Phil., iv., ca. xviii. [239] In the following list I have divided the latter, making the Moral Essays separate from the Philosophy. [240] I have given here those treatises which are always printed among the works of Cicero. [241] De Inventione, lib. ii., 4. [242] Quintilian, in his Proaemium or Preface: "Oratorem autem instituimus illum perfectum, qui esse nisi vir bonus non potest." It seems as though there had almost been the question whether the perfect orator could exist, although there was no question he had never done so as yet.