an eloquent pleader at Rome, whom the younger Pliny characterises as a man "subtilis,
dispositus, acer, disertus," is first mentioned in the reign of Vespasian, when he spoke of
the emperor with great boldness, in pleading the cause of a wealthy person who had been
accused. He was brought to trial in the reign of Domitian, but what was the result of this
trial we are not informed: he had the good fortune, at all events, of escaping with his life
(Vesp.
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