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Piso afterward called Cicero to account in the Senate, and brought out a still more choice explosion of invectives. Beast, filth, polluted monster, and such like, were the lightest of the names which Cicero hurled back at one of the oldest members of the Roman aristocracy. Who in those days saw you ever sober, or doing anything that a citizen need not be ashamed of? In L. Pisonem,10.
You remember the sad tale concerning the Christian Probus, which Piso, in recounting the incidents of his journey from Rome to Palmyra, related to us while seated at the tables? 'Indeed, I did not hear it, said Zenobia; 'so that Piso must, if he will, repeat it. 'We shall willingly hear it again, said Julia and Fausta. And I then related it again.
Cicero's success would mean not only the elimination of Antony to which they did not object but also the recall of Brutus and Cassius, and the consequent elimination of themselves from political influence. Piso accordingly began to waver.
See the Life of Cicero, c. 10, &c. If we have not the words of Cæsar, there is no reason for supposing that we have not the substance of his speech. Whatever might be Cæsar's object, his proposal was consistent with law and a fair trial. Sallustius mentions Catulus and C. Piso as the instigators. He also observes that they had tried to prevail on Cicero to criminate Cæsar by false testimony.
III. XII. Pastoral Husbandry III. I. The Carthaginian Dominion in Africa III. VI. Guerilla War in Sicily III. XII. Falling Off in the Population IV. I. War against Aristonicus IV. I. Cilicia Even now there are not unfrequently found in front of Castrogiovanni, at the point where the ascent is least abrupt, Roman projectiles with the name of the consul of 621: L. Piso L. f. cos.
Cato, the Stoic and ascetic, had his eyes riveted on the carpet, and his face was as stony as an Egyptian Colossus. Then a coarse forced laugh from Piso broke the spell. "Capital, Pompeius! You are a favourite of the gods!" "I?" ventured the Magnus, moving his lips slowly. "Of course," cried several voices at once, catching the cue from Piso. "You are the first in the world, Cæsar the second!
In invective, notwithstanding his splendid anger against Catiline, Antony, and Piso, he does not appear at his happiest; and the reason is not far to seek. It has often been laid to his reproach that he corresponded and even held friendly intercourse with men whom he holds up at another time to the execration of mankind.
He entirely denied the truth of the evidence, and said that "the only reason which he had assigned to Piso for seeing so little of him was his weak health and love of retirement. Nero, who knew how little prone he was to flattery, might judge whether or no it was likely that he, a man of consular rank, would prefer the safety of a man of private station to his own."
He entreated Pompey to aid him, who was on purpose gone out of the way, and was staying at his country-house in the Alban hills; and first he sent his son-in-law Piso to intercede with him, and afterwards set out to go himself.
But M. Piso derived all his talents from his erudition; for he was much better versed in the Grecian literature than any of his predecessors.
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