Well, from his legal battles in the courts, Cicero won the highest honors and the most distinguished rank, but wasn’t his testimony...

Gaius Cosconius was accused under the Servilian law, and because of his many obvious crimes, there was no doubt that he was guilty. But...

I would have said that this former censor was too fierce, if I did not see that Publius Atilius Philiscus, who had been forced by his...

In a truly great generation of talented and distinguished citizens, Quintus Hortensius reached the highest level of influence and...

They grow up in litters; if they put a foot on the ground, they are held up by helping hands on either side. We like it if they say...

Seeing a young man behaving effeminately, “Are you not ashamed,” he said, “that your own intention about yourself should be worse than...

…for no man is able to make progress when he is facing both ways. But if you have preferred this course to every other, if you wish to devote yourself to this alone, and labour to perfect it, give up everything else. Otherwise this facing both ways will bring about a double result: You will neither make progress as you ought, nor will you get what you used to get before. For before, when you frankly aimed at nothing worth while, you made a pleasant companion. You cannot achie

Once, when he was visited by a young student of rhetoric whose hair was somewhat too elaborately dressed, and whose attire in general was highly embellished…