“Crispus, you, too, Jugurtha's fall who told,
And filched such store of words from Cato old.
”
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a fact which Cicero recorded in the words, “Cimber
has killed his brother German.”1
The epigram against Sallust is scarcely less well
known:
1 Phil. XI. vi. 14. A pun on the two meanings of gemanus, brother and German.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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