He adds also that Cicero took care not to allow the joke to appear in the published edition of his speech.[266] There are parts of the speech which have been preserved, and are sufficiently amusing even to us.

He is very hard upon the Greeks of Asia, the class from which the witnesses against Flaccus were taken.

We know here in England that a spaniel, a wife, and a walnut-tree may be beaten with advantage.

Cicero says that in Asia there is a proverb that a Phrygian may be improved in the same way.

"Fiat experimentum in corpore vili." It is declared through Asia that you should take a Carian for your experiment.