Give us then not a panegyric on the ancients (their own fame is a sufficient panegyric) but tell us plainly the reasons why with us there has been such a falling off from their eloquence, the more marked as dates have proved that from the death of Cicero to this present day is but a hundred and twenty years.
"obvius in Palatio Iulius Atticus speculator, cruentum gladium ostentans, occisum a se Othonem exclamavit; et Galba ""commilito"", inquit, ""quis iussit?"" insigni animo ad coercendam militarem licentiam, minantibus intrepidus, adversus blandientis incorruptus."latin-ancient latin-ancient