Caput

 1 1 |         lustre on the past, our age is so forlorn and so destitute
 2 6 |       in years, and even in old age, men backed by the influence
 3 8 |    indeed, venerable in his old age and most tolerant of truth,
 4 12|    weapon. But the happy golden age, to speak in our own poetic
 5 12|     care to dive into a remoter age, an Apollo himself. Or,
 6 14|         men, the orators of our age, instead of exercising your
 7 15|      argued that nobody in this age is an orator. And you did
 8 16|      Aper, I will not allow our age to be condemned, unheard
 9 17|        must not then divide the age, and habitually describe
10 18|         credit reflected on the age by the fame and renown of
11 18|       eloquence change with the age. Thus Caius Gracchus compared
12 19|        the circumstances of the age and an altered taste in
13 20|     Virgil, and Lucan. Thus the age of our orators, in conforming
14 22| superior to the orators of that age. In fact, he was the first
15 23|  eloquent friends, to grace our age to the best of your ability,
16 24|       has he been defending our age? How full and varied was
17 25|      that the eloquence of that age exceeded ours. If again
18 25|       this as pre-eminently the age of speakers, so among ourselves
19 26|     many of the speakers of our age, and which, with its idle
20 27|    against the eloquence of our age, just before Aper offended
21 36|        but the eloquence of the age was exercised, and, as it
22 41|   excellent, and, as far as the age requires, most eloquent
23 41|     changed your lives and your age, the highest fame and glory
24 41|        the blessings of his own age without disparaging other