"Cicero is one of the very few pagan statesmen who can be described as a thoroughly conscientious man," he says.

The purport of his illogical essay on Cicero is no doubt thoroughly hostile to the man.

It is chiefly worth reading on account of the amusing virulence with which Middleton, the biographer, is attacked.
[27] Quintilian, lib.ii., c.

5.
[28] De Finibus, lib.v., ca.

xxii.: "Nemo est igitur, qui non hanc affectionem animi probet atque laudet." [29] De Rep., lib.vi., ca.