[4]
And to be the son of a Roman knight ought neither to be attributed to any one
as a crime, either by the present prosecutor, or before those men who are
the judges, or while I am the counsel for the defence. For as to what you
have said about his filial affection, or the want of it, that can only be a
vague opinion of ours, but the decision as to the truth of it must certainly
rest with his parent. What our opinion is, you shall hear from witnesses on
their oath: what his parents feel to be the truth, the tears of his mother
and her incredible sorrow, the mourning appearance of his father and his
distress which you now behold, and his agony, sufficiently declare.
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.