I have observed, O judges, that the whole speech of the accuser is divided into two parts,
one of which appeared to me to rely upon, and to put its main trust in, the inveterate
unpopularity of the trial before Junius; 1 the other, just for
the sake of usage, to touch very lightly and diffidently On the method pursued in cases of
accusations of poisoning; concerning which matter this form of trial is appointed by law. And,
therefore, I have determined to preserve the same division of the subject in my defence,
speaking separately to the question of unpopularity and to that of the accusation, in order
that every one may understand that I neither wish to evade any point by being silent with
respect to it, nor to make anything obscure by speaking of it.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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