In a letter from Essex to Foulke Greville, the writing of which has been attributed to Bacon by Mr.Spedding, Florus is said simply to have epitomized Livy (Life, vol.ii., p.

23).

In this I think that Bacon has shorn him of his honors.
[22] Florus, lib.iv., 1.
[23] Sallust, Catilinaria, xxiii.
[24] I will add the concluding passage from the pseudo declamation, in order that the reader may see the nature of the words which were put into Sallust's mouth: "Quos tyrannos appellabas, eorum nunc potentiae faves; qui tibi ante optumates videbantur, eosdem nunc dementes ac furiosos vocas; Vatinii caussam agis, de Sextio male existumas; Bibulum petulantissumis verbis laedis, laudas Caesarem; quem maxume odisti, ei maxume obsequeris.
Aliud stans, aliud sedens, de republica sentis; his maledicis, illos odisti; levissume transfuga, neque in hac, neque illa parte fidem habes." Hence Dio Cassius declared that Cicero had been called a turncoat.

[Greek: kai automalos onomazeto.] [25] Dio Cassius, lib.xlvi., 18: [Greek: pros hen kai auten toiautas epistolas grapheis hoias an grapseien aner skoptoles athuroglorros ...

kai proseti kai to stoma autou diaballein epecheirese tosaute aselgeia kai akatharsia para panta ton bion chromenos hoste mede ton sungenestaton apechesthai, alla ten te gunaika proagogeuein kai ten thugatera moicheuein.] [26] As it happens, De Quincey specially calls Cicero a man of conscience.