He also made over the province of Gaul, which then fell to his lot, to Metellus, not wishing to leave the city.

All this had to be explained to the people.
[156] It will be seen that he also defended Rabirius in his consular year, but had thought fit to include that among his consular speeches.

Some doubt has been thrown, especially by Mr.Tyrrell, on the genuineness of Cicero's letter giving the list of his "oratiunculas consulares," because the speeches Pro Murena and Pro Pisone are omitted, and as containing some "rather un-Ciceronian expressions." My respect for Mr.Tyrrell's scholarship and judgment is so great that I hardly dare to express an opinion contrary to his; but I should be sorry to exclude a letter so Ciceronian in its feeling.
And if we are to have liberty to exclude without evidence, where are we to stop?
[157] Corn.Nepo., Epaminondas, I.: "We know that with us" (Romans) "music is foreign to the employments of a great man.

To dance would amount to a vice.

But these things among the Greeks are not only pleasant but praiseworthy." [158] Conj.