Addidit invalidae robur facundia causae"

[16] Tacitus, De Oratoribus, xxx.

[17] Juvenal, viii., 243.

[18] Demosthenes and Cicero compared.

[19] Quintilian, xii., 1.

[20] "Repudiatus vigintiviratus." He refused a position of official
value rendered vacant by the death of one Cosconius. See Letters to
Atticus, 2,19.

[21] Florus, lib.iv, 1. In a letter from Essex to Foulke Greville,
the writing of which has been attributed to Bacon by Mr. Spedding,
Florus is said simply to have epitomized Livy (Life, vol. ii, p.23).
In this I think that Bacon has shorn him of his honors.

[22] Florus, lib.iv., 1.

[23] Sallust, Catilinaria, xxiii.

[24] I will add the concluding passage from the pseudo declamation, in
order that the reader may see the nature of the words which were put
into Sallust's mouth: "Quos tyrannos appellabas, eorum nune potentiae
faves; qui tibi ante optumates videbantur, eosdem nune dementes ac
furiosos vocas; Vatinii caussam agis, de Sextio male existumas;
Bibulum petulantissumis verbis laedis, laudas Caesarem; quern maxume
odisti, ei maxume obsequeris. Aliud stans, aliud sedens, de republica