We are rivals, I suppose, for some honor or distinction.

I place the chief good in the mind, he in the body; I in virtue, he in pleasure; and the Epicureans are up in arms, and implore the assistance of their neighbors, and many are ready to fly to their aid.

But as for my part, I declare that I am very indifferent about the matter, and that I consider the whole discussion which they are so anxious about at an end.

For what! is the contention about the Punic war?
on which very subject, though M.Cato and L.Lentulus were of different opinions, still there was no difference between them.

But these men behave with too much heat, especially as the opinions which they would uphold are no very spirited ones, and such as they dare not plead for either in the senate or before the assembly of the people, or before the army or the censors.