Ille erat in tribunali proximus; in cubiculo socius; in convivio dominus, ac tum maxime, quum, accubante praetextato praetoris filio, in convivio saltare nudus c[oe]perat." [126] A great deal is said of the _Cybea_ in this and the last speech.

The money expended on it was passed through the accounts as though the ship had been built for the defence of the island from pirates, but it was intended solely for the depository of the governor's plunder.
[127] In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib.iv., vii.
[128] In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib.iv., lvii.
[129] In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib.v., lxvi.: "Facinus est vinciri civem Romanum; scelus verberari; prope parricidium necari; quid dicam in crucem tollere!" [130] In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib.v., lxv.
[131] In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib.v., xx.: "Onere suo plane captam atque depressam." [132] In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib.v., xxvi.
[133] Ibid., xxviii.
[134] Pro Fonteio, xiii.
[135] De Oratore, lib.ii., lix.: "Perspicitis, hoc genus quam sit facetum, quam elegans, quam oratorium, sive habeas vere, quod narrare possis, quod tamen, est mendaciunculis aspergendum, sive fingas." Either invent a story, or if you have an old one, add on something so as to make it really funny.

Is there a parson, a bishop, an archbishop, who, if he have any sense of humor about him, does not do the same?
[136] Cicero, Pro Cluentio, l., explains very clearly his own idea as to his own speeches as an advocate, and may be accepted, perhaps, as explaining the ideas of barristers of to-day.

"He errs," he says, "who thinks that he gets my own opinions in speeches made in law courts; such speeches are what the special cases require, and are not to be taken as coming from the advocate as his own." [137] When the question is discussed, we are forced rather to wonder how many of the great historical doings of the time are not mentioned, or are mentioned very slightly, in Cicero's letters.

Of Pompey's treatment of the pirates, and of his battling in the East, little or nothing is said, nothing of Caesar's doings in Spain.
Mention is made of Caesar's great operations in Gaul only in reference to the lieutenancy of Cicero's brother Quintus, and to the employment of his young friend Trebatius.