Address on university progress, delivered before the National Teachers' Association, at Trenton, N.J., August 20, 1869

Because all the world knows that Verres is distinguished by nothing except his monstrous offenses and his immense wealth. Therefore if he is acquitted it will be impossible to imagine any explanation except the most shameful. So I advise you, gentlemen, for your own sakes, to see that this does not occur.БЂ«And with that he turned his back on them. БЂњI call my first witness-Sthenius of Thermae.БЂ«I doubt very strongly whether any of the aristocrats on that jury-Catulus, Isauricus, Metellus, Catilina, Lucretius, Aemilius, and the rest-had ever been addressed with such insolence before, especially by a new man without a single ancestral mask to show on his atrium wall. How they must have loathed being made to sit there and take it, especially given the deliriums of ecstasy with which Cicero was received by the vast crowd in the Forum when he sat down. As for Hortensius, it was possible almost to feel sorry for him. His entire career had been founded on his ability to memorize immense orations and deliver them with the aplomb of an actor ...»