[7]
On the other hand will it be denied that it was
by his gift of speech that Appius the Blind broke
off the dishonourable peace which was on the point
of being concluded with Pyrrhus? Did not the
divine eloquence of Cicero win popular applause
even when he denounced the Agrarian laws,1 did it
not crush the audacious plots of Catiline and win,
while he still wore the garb of civil life, the highest
honour that can be conferred on a victorious general,
a public thanksgiving to heaven?
1 i.e. though denouncing laws which would naturally be popular.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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