"Ac, veluti magno in populo quum saepe coorta est
Seditio, saevitque 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 dolcat".

[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:

"Cunctorum voces Romani maximus auctor
Tullius eloquii, cujus sub jure togaque
Pacificas saevus tremuit Catilina secures,
Pertulit iratus bellis, cum rostra forumque
Optaret passus tam longa silentia miles