2. For as a dart is fastned in the body, so speech in the mind, not by the force more than by the stay.
3 In this he dealeth with me by testimonies, and amongst the Greeks, he boasts to me of Lysias's orations; amongst our own, of the Gracchi and Cato, many of whose indeed are curt and short.
4. I oppose Demosthenes, Aeschines, and Hyperides, to Lysias, and man, besides to the Gracchi and Cato, viz Pollio, Caesar, Caelius, and chiefly Marcus Tullius, whose oration is said to be the best, which is the biggest.
5. And truly, as other good things, so every good book is the better, the bigger it is.
6. ••ou see how nothing more than their greatnesse commendeth statues, images, pictures; besides, the shapes of men, and many living things, and trees also, if they be but handsome.
7. So it betides in Orations; moreover their bulk addeth a kind of authority and grace to the very volumes.
8. These arguments, and many others which I use to allege to the same purpose, as he is very full of his shifts and slippery in disputing, he so shifteth, that he maintaineth, these very same men, upon whose Orations I grounded, to have spoken fewer words than they have published.
9. I am quite of another mind.
10. Many orations of many men are my witnesses, and those of Cicero for Marena, for Varenus, wherein a short and bare no∣ting, as it were, of some crimes is shown by their titles alone.
11. By these it is apparent, that he spake very many things, and omitted them, when he put forth his orations.
12. The same Tully pleading for Cluentius, saith, That he alone pleaded a whole cause to the end, after the old custom, and that he pleaded for Cornelius four days together; we can make no doubt, but that he abridged what he had spoken at large for many days together, as it was needfull, being afterwards pared and purged, into one book, a great one indeed, and yet but one.
13. A good pleading is one thing, an oration another.
14. I know some think it to be so, but I (perhaps I am mista∣ken) am perswaded, that it may fall out, that a pleading may be good, which is not a good oration; and that it cannot be but a good pleading which is a good oration.