CHAPTER 95. _Cato_, the earliest of the great orators of Rome: for his

excellences see Cicero, Brutus, 65 sqq. (Cp. note on chap. 17).

_Laelius_, see note on chap. 20. Cicero selects _lenitas_ as the chief characteristic of his style (de Orat. iii. 7. 28).

_Gracchus_ (Caius Sempronius) was famous for the fire of his oratory (cp. Cic. Brut. 125, 126, de Orat. iii. 56. 214).

_Caesar_ is generally praised chiefly for _elegantia_ in his oratory, rather than for his warmth (cp. Cic. Brut. 252, 261, Quint. x. 1. 114).

_Hortensius_, Cicero's chief rival: a master of the Asiatic style (cp. Cic. Brut. 228, 9. 302, 3. 325-8).

_Calvus_, a contemporary of Cicero. One of the chief representatives of the Attic style (cp. Cic. Brut. 283).

_Sallust_, the famous historian.

virilis_, cp. chap. 88. This must be taken metaphorically = 'You let him behave like a man.'

_perorare_ (= to plead in court) and _exorare_ (= to win over his mother by prayer).

pun on _veneficium_ and _beneficium_ which cannot be reproduced.

THE FLORIDA

_the great poet._ Homer, Iliad, iii. 12.

fourth century B.C. Others attribute the grievance to his pupil Ismenias. This story is also told by Dio Chrysostom xlix.