Wit and valor are qualifications more easily ascertained than humanity or the love of justice.] [Footnote 46: Tacitus has characterized, in a few words, the principles of the portico: Doctores sapientiae secutus est, qui sola bona quae honesta, main tantum quae turpia; potentiam, nobilitatem, aeteraque extra...

bonis neque malis adnumerant.Tacit.Hist.iv.

5.] [Footnote 47: Before he went on the second expedition against the Germans, he read lectures of philosophy to the Roman people, during three days.

He had already done the same in the cities of Greece and Asia.Hist.August.in Cassio, c.

3.] [Footnote 471: Cassius was murdered by his own partisans.Vulcat.