in
Latin
) instead of
Marcus Tullius Cicero
, order'd the Words
Marcus Tullius
with the Figure of a Vetch at the End of them to be inscribed on a publick Monument
. This was done probably to shew that he was neither ashamed of his Name or Family, notwithstanding the Envy of his Competitors had often reproached him with both. In the same manner we read of a famous Building that was marked in several Parts of it with the Figures of a Frog and a Lizard: Those Words in
Greek