If shameless impudence had as much power in the forum and in the courts of law, as audacity
has in the country and in desolate places, then Aulus Caecina would now, in this trial, yield
to the impudence of Sextus Aebutius as much as he has already yielded to his audacity in
committing deeds of violence. But he thought that it became a considerate man not to contend
in arms about a matter which ought to be decided by law; and he thought that it became an
honest man, to defeat by law and judicial proceedings the man with whom he had declined
contending in arms and violence.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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