If we turn to Cicero, we shall find that one speech alone, the pro Cluenltio, will suffice to provide a number of examples. The difficulty is to know what special exhibition of sagacity to admire most in this speech. His opening statement of the case, by which he discredited the mother whose authority pressed so hardly on her son? vi. 17. The fact that he preferred to throw the charge of having bribed the jury back upon his opponents rather than deny it on account of what he calls the notorious infamy of the verdict? i 4. Or his recourse, last of all, to the support of the law in spite of the odious nature of the affair, a method by which lie would have set the judges against him but for the fact that he had already softened their feelings towards him? lii. 143 sqq. Or the skill which lie shows in stating that he has adopted this course in spite of the protests of his client? lii. 114, 148, 149.

What again am I to select as an outstanding instance of his sagacity in the pro Milone? The fact that he refrains from proceeding to his statement of facts until he has cleared the ground by disposing of the previous verdicts against the accused? cp. Quint. III. vi. 93. The manner in which he turns the odium of the attempted ambush against Clodius, although as a matter of fact the encounter was a pure chance? The way in which he at one and the same time praised the actual deed and showed that it was forced upon his client? Or the skill with which he avoided making Milo plead for consideration and undertook the role of suppliant himself? See above i. 25 and 27. It would be an endless task to quote all the instances of his sagacity, how he discredited Cotta, cp. above v. xiii. 30. The reference is to the pro Oppio. how he put forward his own case in defence of Ligarius See above v. x. 93. and saved Cornelius See above v. xiii. 18 and 26. by his bold admission of the facts. It is enough, I think,