Caput

 1 1 | reproduce a conversation among men, for our time, singularly
 2 1 |     powerfully expressed, from men of the highest eminence,
 3 2 | Secundus, then the most famous men of genius at our bar. Of
 4 6 | gatherings of the most eminent men, and to know that the honour
 5 6 |        equal to that of seeing men in years, and even in old
 6 6 |    years, and even in old age, men backed by the influence
 7 7 |       the ignorant mob and the men with the tunic oftener speak
 8 8 |        they are quite as great men in the remotest corners
 9 8 |       what a height of fortune men have reached by the might
10 8 |   years been the most powerful men in the state, and, as long
11 8 |        this moment, as leading men in the emperor’s friendship
12 8 |     which it is easier to find men denouncing than despising.
13 12|   abounded in poets and bards, men who could sing of good deeds,
14 14|        find that you excellent men, the orators of our age,
15 16|      of ancients, I understand men of the past, born ages ago;
16 17|     saw yourselves several old men who told you that they had
17 17|      the ears of the self-same men might have made acquaintance,
18 23|      you have before your eyes men who read Lucilius rather
19 23|   their admiration. When these men prose in the old style before
20 24|        borrowing from the very men themselves the weapons with
21 25|   superior to all the eloquent men of his day, though Calvus,
22 27|   shall not scruple to mention men by name, that, with examples
23 28|      glory, not from dearth of men, but from the indolence
24 30|       a knowledge of facts, of men and of periods, by no means
25 34|       in battle. Thereby young men acquired from the first
26 36|     fame with the people. Such men had a host of clients, even
27 36|        hope of reward prompted men not to take the place of
28 37|        too the eminence of the men accused, and the vast issues
29 39|     still extant, and thus the men too who pleaded, owe their
30 40| attacking the most influential men, and by the very glory of
31 41|      the senate, when the best men are soon of one mind, or
32 41|      born in the past, and the men we admire in our own day,