. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. of Rome, a manutterly unscrupulous and wedded to a still more unscrupulouswife, Cicero flung away all his timidity and hesitation. Con-vinced that the consul was trying to re-establish a monarchy,the old orator came down to the senate and launched at himthe series of ferocious but most eloquent philippics. Somewere spoken, some merely written and published. It wascourting death in the cause of liberty. Cicero was not blindto the danger he was running. But he is probably sincerewhen he says that life has no more attracti
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. of Rome, a manutterly unscrupulous and wedded to a still more unscrupulouswife, Cicero flung away all his timidity and hesitation. Con-vinced that the consul was trying to re-establish a monarchy,the old orator came down to the senate and launched at himthe series of ferocious but most eloquent philippics. Somewere spoken, some merely written and published. It wascourting death in the cause of liberty. Cicero was not blindto the danger he was running. But he is probably sincerewhen he says that life has no more attractions for him. defendi rempublicam adolescens; non deseram senex:contempsi Catilinae gladios; non pertimescam tuos. quinetiam corpus libenter obtulerim, si repraesentari morte mealibertas ciuitatis potest; ut aliquando dolor populi Romanipariat quod iamdiu parturit. etenim si, abhinc prope annosuiginti, hoc ipso in templo, negaui posse mortem immaturamesse consulari, quanto uerius nunc negabo seni I mihi uero,iam etiam optanda mors est, perfuncto rebus iis quas adeptus148. Plate 24. AUGUSTUS: THE PRIMAPORTA STATUE(See p. 161) LAST CENTURY OF THE REPUBLIC sum quasque gessi. duo modo hsc opto: unum, ut morienspopulum Romanum liberum relinquam ; hoc mihi maius a disimmortalibus dari nihil potest: alterum ut ita cuique eueniat,ut de republica quisque mereatur.* As he foresaw so plainly, the philippics caused his the triumvirate drew up its proscription-lists, Octavianissaid to have pleaded for his life. But Antonys wrath wasimplacable. Ciceros head and his hands were nailed to therostra from which he had so often poured out his rhetoric, andthe virago Fulvia, so the story goes, thrust her needle throughhis eloquent, venomous tongue. ., , • Julius Ciesar, that miracle of energy, beside being a competent grammarian and no mean poet, was reputed the second of Roman orators. Of that we have little means of judging. Certainly he could quell a mutiny by a speech, and his Commen
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