Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero

Cicero, on the contrary, was reproached in the senate by Laelius for sitting silent when Caesar asked leave to stand for the consulship, which was contrary to law, since he was still a beardless youth. And Brutus also, in one of his letters, accused him of having reared up a tyranny greater and more severe than that which the writer himself had overthrown.[*](Cicero, ad Brutum, i. 17, 2 (Brutus to Atticus).)