Note 737 — Chapter VI · THE GRACCHI, MARIUS, AND SYLLA. (621-676.)
Reading edition
Cicero, De Oratore, II. 39.—“A law which, among the ancients, embraced different objects: treasons in the army, seditions at Rome, diminution of the majesty of the Roman people by the bad administration of a magistrate.” (Tacitus, Annals, I. 72.)