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What can be the meaning of this argument of
yours, O Calenus? what can be your intention? How is it that you have never once
since the first of January been of the same opinion with him who asks you your
opinion first? How is it that the senate has never yet been so full as to enable
you to find one single person to agree with your sentiments? Why are you always
defending men who in no point resemble you? why, when both your life and your
fortune invite you to tranquillity and dignity, do you approve of those
measures, and defend those measures, and declare those sentiments, which are
adverse both to the general tranquillity and to your own individual dignity?
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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