1. The fourth section of this Introduction will say something about the enormous influence exercised on subsequent ages by Cicero’s popularization of Greek philosophical doctrines.

2. Catullus, XLIX. Fortius English version (in the same metre) acknowledgements are due to Gilbert Higher, Poets in a Landscape (1957), p. 51.

3. It used to be attributed to Longinus, a well-known critic of the third century A.D., but is now usually ascribed to the first century.

1. This decision should not obscure the fact that, apart from a few great lawsuits such as these, Cicero rarely appeared as prosecutor: see Cicero: Sekcted Political Speeches, Penguin Books, 1969, p. 29.

2. Gilbert Highet, The Art of Teaching, p. 99.

1. M. L. Clarke, The Roman Mind, pp. 135–9.