A History of Roman Classical Literature.

by R. W. Browne

[812]. Cicero tells us (de Orat. i. 57, 58) that Galba, Antony, and Sulpicius were ignorant of jurisprudence; that the chief requisites were elegance, wit, pathos, &c. For legal knowledge they trusted to jurisconsults. In the oration pro Muræna, even he himself sneers at a technical knowledge of law.

[813]. Delivered B. C. 81.

[814]. B. C. 80.

[815]. De Orat.

[816]. B. C. 70.

[817]. B. C. 69.

[818]. B. C. 66.

[819]. Belles Lettres, Lect. xxviii.

[820]. B. C. 61.

[821]. Schröter. Leips. 1818.