. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. and to neglect his art. His friend Cicero refers to this inthe following interesting passage: After his consulship(I suppose because he saw that he was beyond comparisonthe first speaker amongthe consulars, and tookno count of those whohad not attained thatdignity), Hortensius re-laxed the efforts whichhe had exerted from hisboyhood up, and beingwell off in every waychose to pass his timemore agreeably, as hethought, or at any rateless laboriously. Justas the brilliancy fadesfrom the coloring of anold picture, so the first
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. and to neglect his art. His friend Cicero refers to this inthe following interesting passage: After his consulship(I suppose because he saw that he was beyond comparisonthe first speaker amongthe consulars, and tookno count of those whohad not attained thatdignity), Hortensius re-laxed the efforts whichhe had exerted from hisboyhood up, and beingwell off in every waychose to pass his timemore agreeably, as hethought, or at any rateless laboriously. Justas the brilliancy fadesfrom the coloring of anold picture, so the first,the second, and the thirdyear each robbed himof something not noticeable by a casual observer, butwhich an educated and discerning critic could time went on, he continued to deteriorate in hisdelivery, especially in readiness and sustained flow ofutterance, until he became every day more unlike hisold self. ... By the time that I was made consul, sixyears after his own consulship, Hortensius had almosteffaced himself. Then he began again to take pains; for. The Orator Quintus Hortensius. (From a bust in the Villa Albani.) 496 ARCHITECTURE, LITERATURE, LAW. now that he and I were equals in rank, he wished us to beequals in everything. Thus for the twelve years followingmy consulship we two were engaged in the most importantcases with unbroken friendliness. I always considered himsuperior to myself; he put me first. 2 The world has confirmed the judgment of Tullius Cicero (106-43 ) is easily the first ofRoman orators, — the most eloquent of all the sons As a youth he enjoyed every advantage thatwealth and parental ambition could confer or teachers were the poet Archias and the orator many others of the Roman patrician youth of histime, he was sent to Greece to finish his education in theschools of Athens. Returning to Italy, he soon assumeda position of commanding influence at the Roman prosecutio
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