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Though we know that this was so, the fragments of the speeches, though they have been made intelligible to us by the "argument" or story of them prefixed by Asconius in his notes, cannot be of interest to readers. They were extant in the time of Quintilian, who speaks of them with the highest praise.
Quintilian was certainly a good critic; and he understood how to recommend himself to his own followers by quoting excellences which had already been acknowledged as the best which Roman literature had afforded. Those who have gone before me in writing the life of Cicero have, in telling their story as to Milo, very properly gone to Asconius for their details.
IV. III. Democratic Agitation under Carbo and Flaccus III. XII. Results. Competition of Transmarine Corn III. XII. Prices of Italian Corn III. XI. Reform of the Centuries IV. III. The Commission for Distributing the Domains III. VII. The Romans Maintain A Standing Army in Spain That Gracchus reduced the number of the legal years of service, seems to follow from Asconius in Cornel, p. 68; comp.
IV. III. Democratic Agitation under Carbo and Flaccus III. XII. Results. Competition of Transmarine Corn III. XII. Prices of Italian Corn III. XI. Reform of the Centuries IV. III. The Commission for Distributing the Domains III. VII. The Romans Maintain A Standing Army in Spain That Gracchus reduced the number of the legal years of service, seems to follow from Asconius in Cornel, p. 68; comp.
He was able to make important additions to Silius Italicus, Manilius, Lucretius, Valerius Flaccus, Asconius Pedianus, Columella, Celsus, Aulus Gellius, Statius, and others; and with the help of Leonardo Aretino he unearthed the last twelve comedies of Plautus, as well as the Verrine orations.
It has not come down to us, nor do we regret it, judging from the extracts which have been collected from the notes which Asconius wrote upon it. It was full of personal abuse of Antony and Catiline, his competitors. Such was the practice of Rome at this time, as it was also with us not very long since. We shall have more than enough of such eloquence before we have done our task.
This Cicero alleged to be false, contending that Clodius had lain in wait for Milo, and he endeavored to make this point and no other. "But it is proved," says Asconius, "that neither of the men had any design of violence on that day; that they met by chance, and that the killing of Clodius had come from the quarrelling of the slaves.
Afterward, when Milo entered the Senate, he was accused by a Senator present of having come thither with arms hidden beneath his toga; whereupon he lifted his toga and showed that there were none. Asconius tells us that upon this Cicero declared that all the other charges made against the accused were equally false. This is the first word of Cicero's known to us in the matter.
His speech in the white gown, of which a few fragments are preserved by Asconius, was delivered the following year, only a few days before the election, to support the senatorial measure for checking corrupt canvassing. When the comitia were held, Cicero was elected by a unanimous vote, a fact which reflects credit upon those who gave it.
The elaborate editions of the Latin poets, from Lucretius to Persius, produced by Probus, and the commentaries on Terence, Cicero, Sallust, and Virgil by Asconius and Asper, were the work of a generation to whom these authors had become in effect the classics. But literature, as the event proved not for the first or the last time, cannot live long on the study of the classics alone.
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