[9]
Moreover, if the class of legal experts is as a rule
drawn from those who, in despair of making successful pleaders, have taken refuge with the law,
how easy it must be for an orator to know what
those succeed in learning, who by their own confession are incapable of becoming orators! But
Marcus Cato was at once a great orator and an
expert lawyer, while Scaevola and Servius Sulpicius
[p. 407]
were universally allowed to be eloquent as well.1
1 i. e. as well as experts on the law.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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