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Updated: June 5, 2025
For he is not engaged in actual conflict; he is not armed for the fray; his speeches are made for display, like foils. Aeschines shall come on like aeserninus, as Lucilius says "No ordinary man, but fearless all, And skill'd his arms to wield his equal match Pacideianus stands, than whom the world Since the first birth of man hath seen no greater."
C. and L. Memmius were likewise indifferent orators, and distinguished by the bitterness and asperity of their accusations: for they prosecuted many, but seldom spoke for the defendant. Sp. M. Marcellus, the father of Aeserninus, though not reckoned a professed pleader, was a prompt, and, in some degree, a practised speaker; as was also his son P. Lentulus.
But soon afterwards he gave up the exhibition of this game, in consequence of a severe and bitter speech made in the senate by Asinius Pollio, the orator, in which he complained bitterly of the misfortune of Aeserninus, his grandson, who likewise broke his leg in the same diversion.
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