[782]. Cicero, notwithstanding his opposite politics, admired Marius, to whom he was distantly related, and thought it an honour to have been born near Arpinum. He quotes a saying of Pompey’s (Cic. de Leg. ii. 3,) that Arpinum had produced two citizens who had preserved Italy. Valerius Maximus thinks that Arpinum, in this respect, enjoyed a singular privilege:—Conspicuæ felicitatis Arpinum unicum, sive litterarum gloriosissimum contemptorem, sive abundantissimum fontem intueri velis.
[783]. De Orat. ii. 1.
[784]. Brut. 56.
[785]. Meyer, Anthol. Rom. 66.
[786]. B. C. 89.
[787]. Pro Quint. B. C. 81.
[788]. B. C. 79.
[789]. De Fin. 5, 1.
[790]. B. C. 77.
[791]. B. C. 76; æt. 31.