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There was a certain Octavius, too, who was reputed to be of African descent; to this man, who said at a certain trial that he could not hear Cicero, the orator replied:
‘And yet your ear is not without a perforation.’
1 And when Metellus Nepos declared that Cicero had brought more men to death as a hostile witness than he had saved from it as an advocate,
‘Yes,’ said Cicero,
‘I admit that my credibility is greater than my eloquence.’
1 Usually the mark of a slave.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 7.
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