Aulus Gellius though he tells us that the story was written, does not tell us where he read it.
[219] I must say this, "pace" Mr.Tyrrell, who, in his note on the letter to Atticus, lib.i., 12, attempts to show that some bargain for such professional fee had been made.

Regarding Mr.Tyrrell as a critic always fair, and almost always satisfactory, I am sorry to have to differ from him; but it seems to me that he, too, has been carried away by the feeling that in defending a man's character it is best to give up some point.
[220] I have been amused at finding a discourse, eloquent and most enthusiastic, in praise of Cicero and especially of this oration, spoken by M.Gueroult at the College of France in June, 1815.

The worst literary faults laid to the charge of Cicero, if committed by him--which M.Gueroult thinks to be doubtful--had been committed even by Voltaire and Racine! The learned Frenchman, with whom I altogether sympathize, rises to an ecstasy of violent admiration, and this at the very moment in which Waterloo was being fought.

But in truth the great doings of the world do not much affect individual life.

We should play our whist at the clubs though the battle of Dorking were being fought.
[221] Pro P.Sulla, iv.: "Scis me * * * illorum expertem temporum et sermonum fuisse; credo, quod nondum penitus in republica versabar, quod nondum ad propositum mihi finem honoris perveneram.