Let those who rebuke the unmanliness of Cicero's wailings remember what were his sufferings.

The story has yet to be told, but I may in rough words describe their nature.

Everything was to be taken from him: all that he had--his houses, his books, his pleasant gardens, his busts and pictures, his wide retinue of slaves, and possessions lordly as are those of our dukes and earls.

He was driven out from Italy and so driven that no place of delight could be open to him.

Sicily, where he had friends, Athens, where he might have lived, were closed against him.