Tu quoque, tu in summis, o dimidiate Menander,
Poneris, et merito, puri sermonis amator.
Lenibus atque utinam scriptis adjuncta foret vis
Comica, ut æquato virtus polleret honore
Cum Græcis; neque in hac despectus parte jaceres!
Unum hoc maceror et doleo tibi deesse, Terenti.
(Suetonius, Life of Terence, 5.)
[760] “Liberal to prodigality, and of a courage above human nature and even imagination.” (Velleius Paterculus, II. 41.)
[761] “He held, undeniably, the second rank among the orators of Rome.” (Plutarch, Cæsar, 3.)
[762] “Nam cui Hortensio, Lucullove, vel Cæsari, tam parata unquam adfuit recordatio, quam tibi sacra mens tua loco momentoque, quo jusseris, reddit omne depositum?” (Latinus Pacatus, Panegyricus in Theodosium, XVIII. 3.)—(Pliny, Natural History, VII. 25.)
[763] “Quamvis moderate soleret irasci, maluit tamen non posse.” (Seneca, De Ira, II. 23.)
[764] Plutarch, Cæsar, 4.
[765] Plutarch, Cæsar, 19.
[766] “To the external advantages which distinguished him from all the other citizens, Cæsar joined an impetuous and powerful soul.” (Velleius Paterculus, II. 41.)
[767] Suetonius, Cæsar, 15.
[768] “By his voice, his gesture, the grand and noble air of his person, he had a certain brilliant manner of speech, without the least artifice.” (Cicero, Brutus, 75; copied by Suetonius, Cæsar, 55.)