FOOTNOTES:
[157] Sometimes called the Age of Cicero.
[158] Lucretius.—ED.
[159] One of the most noted, the plea for Milo, was written much later. Cicero at the time of the delivery was distracted and said almost nothing.
[160] See the "Dialogue of the Orators," attributed to Tacitus.
[161] The word "rhetor" signified in Greek simply orator; the Romans used the word in a mistaken sense to designate the men who made a profession of speaking.
[162] The same reserve must be maintained with regard to the arts as to the literature. The builders of the Roman monuments were not Romans, but provincials, often slaves; the only Roman would be the master for whom the slaves worked.
[163] This estimate is too liberal. 1,500,00 is probably nearer the truth. See Friedlaender, Sittengeschichte Roms, i. 25.—ED.
[164] Cicero describes this juridical comedy which was still in force in his time.