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A layman who comes before the Courts inops consilii is allowed more latitude in the conduct of his case than is generally conceded to a counsel whose professional business it is to plead at the bar; but the latitude permitted in the case under consideration was beyond all legitimate bounds.
Consilii quam formidinis. Supply magis. The conciseness of T. leads him often to omit one of two correlative particles, cf. note on minime, 4. Referunt. Carry into the rear, and so secure them for burial. Etiam in dubiis proeliis. Even while the battle remains undecided. Guen. Finierunt. In a present or aorist sense, as often in T. So prohibuerunt, Sec. 10; placuit and displicuit, 11. cf. Lex.
The other aggravation lies in this that he, a convicted conspirator, has presumed to take his seat amongst the senators of the land "Venit in senatum, fit particeps consilii." Yet Catiline, here denounced to the public rage, was not a convicted conspirator; and even his conspiracy rests very much on the word of an enemy.
It is not of one piece indeed. In that particular Pliny himself might be mistaken. "Opus omnibus et picturae, et statuariae artis praeponendum. Ex uno lapide eum et Liberos draconumque mirabiles nexus de consilii sententia fecere succubi artifices." "A work preferable to all the other Efforts of Painting and Statuary.
His friends may with perfect justice rejoin that at the sight of the Holy Land, and of the actual scene of the Gospel story, all the current of M. Renan's thoughts may have naturally changed, and a new casting of that story irresistibly suggested itself to him; and that this is just a case for applying Cicero's maxim: Change of mind is not inconsistency nemo doctus unquam mutationem consilii inconstantiam dixit esse.
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