[72]
But why is Marcus Caelius brought before this court? when no charge properly
belonging to this mode of investigation is imputed to him, nor indeed
anything else of such a nature that, though it may not exactly come under
the provisions of my law, still calls for the exercise of your severity. His
early youth was devoted to strict discipline; and to those pursuits by which
we are prepared for these forensic labours,—for taking part in the
administration of the republic,—for honour, and
glory, and dignity
* * * * and to those friendships with his elders, whose industry and temperance he might most desire to imitate; and to those studies of the youths of his own age: so that he appeared to be pursuing the same course of glory as the most virtuous and most highly-born of the citizens.
* * * * and to those friendships with his elders, whose industry and temperance he might most desire to imitate; and to those studies of the youths of his own age: so that he appeared to be pursuing the same course of glory as the most virtuous and most highly-born of the citizens.
