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What can be
more brutal than the words of Verres' lictor, “To
see him you will pay so much”?1 or braver than
those of the man from whom the scourge could
wring but one cry, “I am a Roman citizen!”2
Again, read the words which Cicero places in the
mouth of Milo in his peroration: are they not
worthy of the man who to save the state had so
oft repressed a seditious citizen, and had triumphed
by his valour over the ambush that was laid for
him?3
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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