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Although long acquaintance, and habit, and a fellowship and resemblance in the
most honorable pursuits, has bound us together from his first entrance into
life; and his incredible diligence, proved at the time of the most formidable
dangers of the civil war, showed that he was a favorer not only of my safety,
but also of my dignity; still as I said before if he were not such a consul as I
have described, I should venture to deny that he was a consul at all. But now I
call him not only a consul but the most excellent and virtuous consul within my
recollection; not but that there have been others of equal virtue and equal
inclination, but still they have not had an equal opportunity of displaying the
virtue and inclination.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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