"But surely the men were not equal. The one in declining years, who had already changed his arms for the garb of peace, had unlearned the general in the statesman--had become wont to talk to the people, to devote himself to harangues, and to love the applause of his own theatre. He has not cared to renew his strength, trusting to his old fortune. There remains of him but the shadow of his great name." "The name of Cæsar does not loom so large; nor is his character as a general so high. But there is a spirit which can content itself with no achievements; there is but one feeling of shame--that of not conquering; a man determined, not to be controlled, taking his arms wherever lust of conquest or anger may call him; a man never sparing the sword, creating all things from his own good-fortune trusting always the favors of the gods." [1] Froude's Cæsar, p. 444. [2] Ibid., p. 428. [3] Ad Att., lib. xiii., 28. [4] Ad Att., lib. ix., 10. [5] Froude, p. 365. [6] Ad Att., lib. ii., 5: "Quo quidem uno ego ab istis capi possum." [7] The Cincian law, of which I shall have to speak again, forbade Roman advocates to take any payment for their services. Cicero expressly declares that he has always obeyed that law. He accused others of disobeying it, as, for instance, Hortensius. But no contemporary has accused him. Mr. Collins refers to some books which had been given to Cicero by his friend P[oe]tus. They are mentioned in a letter to Atticus, lib. i., 20; and Cicero, joking, says that he has consulted Cincius--perhaps some descendant of him who made the law 145 years before--as to the legality of accepting the present. But we have no reason for supposing that he had ever acted as an advocate for P[oe]tus. [8] Virgil, Æneid, i., 150: "Ac, veluti magno in populo quum sæpe coorta est Seditio, sævitque animis ignobile vulgus; Jamque faces, et saxa volant; furor arma ministrat: Tum, pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem Conspexere, silent, arrectisque auribus adstant; Iste regit dictis animos, et pectora mulcet." [9] The author is saying that a history from Cicero would have been invaluable, and the words are "interitu ejus utrum respublica an historia magis doleat." [10] Quintilian tells us this, lib. ii., c. 5. The passage of Livy is not extant. The commentators suppose it to have been taken from a letter to his son. [11] Velleius Paterculus, lib. ii., c. 34. [12] Valerius Maximus, lib. iv., c. 2; 4. [13] Pliny, Hist. Nat., lib. vii., xxxi., 30. [14] Martial, lib. xiv., 188. [15] Lucan, lib. vii., 62: