But the Sicilians had known both of them, had known Cæcilius almost as well as Cicero, and had expressed themselves clearly.
Had the Sicilians said that they were unwilling to trust their affairs to Cæcilius because they had not known him, but were willing to trust him, Cicero, whom they did know, would not even that have been reasonable enough of itself?
So Cæcilius was put forward as Cicero's competitor, and our first speech is that made by Cicero to prove his own superiority to that of his rival.
Whether Cæcilius was or was not hired to break down in his assumed duty as accuser, we do not know.
Cæcilius himself had declared that no one could be so fit as himself for the work.
Cæcilius was probably even now in alliance with Verres.
It may be possible that Clodius was appointed to the work--as it had been intended that Cæcilius should be appointed at the prosecution of Verres--in order to assure not the conviction but the acquittal of the guilty man.
We can understand how Cæcilius cowered, and found consolation in being relieved from his task.
Cicero's first speech in the matter of Verres is called In Quintum Cæcilium Divinatio, because one Cæcilius came forward to take the case away from him.
Plutarch says that Cæcilius was an emancipated slave, and a Jew, which could not have been true, as he was a Roman Senator.
It is the only vertue of Ladies which doeth constraine them to vomite foorthe their poyson, when they see them selues deceiued, of their fonde and vncomely demaundes.
Farmer entertained of their rarity may be given in his own words: “The Two Tomes, which Tom Rawlinson would have called justa volumina, are almost annihilated.
At length with foltring tongue and trembling voyce, he speaketh to his Ladie in this wyse.
Thomas Cromwell submitted to the axe without a complaint.
No moment is left for the display of conduct beyond this, which requires only decorum and a free use of the pulses to become in some degree glorious.
The following year Gaius Cæcilius and Lucius Flaccus received the title of consuls.
Cæcilius Metellus Creticus is stated by some modern writers to have been a son of Metellus Dalmaticus; but it is unknown who his father and grandfather were.
Cæcilius Metellus Pius Scipio, who was the son of P.
Cæcilius Metellus Pius, who fought in Spain ngainst Sertorius; but his daughter must have been born before this, as she bore the name Cornelia.
Cæcilius Metellus Caprarius, with whom Scipio was so wroth at Numantia, as Cicero tells us (de Or.
And it was not until a stronger Roman array, under Quintus Cæcilius Metellus, appeared, that he was subdued.
Against these people Quintus Cæcilius Metellus, the consul, was sent.
Cæcilius Metellus, hastened to Numidia to retrieve the honor of the Roman arms.
Footnote 157: The consul Cæcilius Metellus was imprisoned by the tribune Flavius for resisting his land law (Dio, xxxvii.
Cæcilius Metellus Numidius, expelled from the senate and banished B.
Cæcilius Metellus Nepos prevented Cicero from making a speech when laying down his consulship, and went on to propose summoning Pompey to Rome, "to protect the lives of the citizens.
Your uncle Cæcilius having been defrauded of a large sum of money by P.
Cæcilius Metellus Nepos, a tribune, after trying in vain to bring Cicero to trial for the execution of the conspirators, at last proposed to summon Pompey to Rome to prevent danger to the lives of citizens.
Cæcilius asked me to appear for him against Satyrus.
Cæcilius Metellus, after his triumph over Andriscus in Macedonia, in B.
He killed Cæcilius Æmilianus, governor of Bætica, on suspicion that he had asked an oracular reply from Hercules at Gades.
Cæcilius Bassus was besieged twice in Apameia, first by C.
Cæcilius Bassus, at the head of two legions, caused Apameia to revolt, and was besieged by two large Roman armies, but his resistance was so vigorous and long that he only surrendered voluntarily and on his own conditions.
Likewise the works of the blessed Cæcilius Cyprianus, martyr, and bishop of Carthage; 2.
Caius Cæcilius Secundus is commonly known as Pliny the Younger, to distinguish him from his uncle, Pliny the Naturalist, whose wealth he inherited and whose name he seems to have borne.
Cæcilius Statius was the predecessor of Terence; by birth an Insubrian Gaul and a native of Milan.
Paullus Cæcilius Arvina tempted us to the deed, by the offer of ten thousand sesterces!
Consequently the people of Rome once more despatched a prætor, Quintus Cæcilius Metellus, with a strong body of troops: he proceeded to Macedonia and enjoyed the assistance of the fleet of Attalus.
Of the consuls Metellus Cæcilius was in the vicinity of Lilybæum, and Numerius Fabius was investing Drepanum, with additional designs upon the islet of Pelias.
In the choice of subjects, Cæcilius demands the preference; in the manners, Terence.
Cæcilius probably prepared this exposition of his faith on being admitted into the mysteries of Ceres.
Footnote 182: Quintus Cæcilius Metellus Pius, the son of Metellus Numidicus, was consul with Sulla in his second consulship B.
When Cæcilius Metellus[64] was appointed consul with the command of the war against Jugurtha, he took Marius with him to Libya in the capacity of legatus.
Callista, Cæcilius would have found changes, but of a very different nature; yet even in him he would have seen a change for the better, for that old awful expression of pride and defiance was gone.
Cæcilius was silent for a moment, and seemed at a loss for an answer.
There Cæcilius gave Juba in charge to Romanus, who had been intrusted with the energumens at Carthage.
Agellius took the tablets, and went with them across the road to the place where Cæcilius was at work, in appearance a slave.
It needs not to enlarge on the joy of the meeting which followed between Cæcilius and his young penitent.
Cæcilius showed signs of perplexity, and his mind retired into itself.
The sun had all but set, when Cæcilius and Victor passed the city gate; and it was more than twilight as they crossed the wild hills leading to the precipitous pass.
Cæcilius did not speak much about himself; but Agellius, on the other hand, found it a relief to tell out his own history, and reflect upon and describe his own feelings.
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