[159]
What shall I do
now? When I have been speaking for so many hours of one class of offences, and of
that man's nefarious cruelty,—when I have now expended nearly all my
treasures of words of such a sort as are worthy of that man's wickedness on other
matters, and have omitted to take precautions to keep your attention on the stretch
by diversifying my accusations, how am I to deal with an affair of the importance
that this is? There is, I think, but one method, but one line open to me. I will
place the matter plainly before you, which is of itself of such importance that
there is no need of my eloquence and eloquence, indeed, I have none, but there is no
need of any one's eloquence to excite your feelings.
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.