He accused others of disobeying it, as, for instance, Hortensius.

But no contemporary has accused him.

Mr.Collins refers to some books which had been given to Cicero by his friend P[oe]tus.

They are mentioned in a letter to Atticus, lib.i., 20; and Cicero, joking, says that he has consulted Cincius--perhaps some descendant of him who made the law 145 years before--as to the legality of accepting the present.

But we have no reason for supposing that he had ever acted as an advocate for P[oe]tus.
[8] Virgil, AEneid, i., 150: "Ac, veluti magno in populo quum saepe coorta est Seditio, saevitque animis ignobile vulgus; Jamque faces, et saxa volant; furor arma ministrat: Tum, pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem Conspexere, silent, arrectisque auribus adstant; Iste regit dictis animos, et pectora mulcet." [9] The author is saying that a history from Cicero would have been invaluable, and the words are "interitu ejus utrum respublica an historia magis doleat." [10] Quintilian tells us this, lib.ii., c.5.