Note 16 — Chapter V · THE PROSE OF THE ROMAN STATESMEN

Cicero, Brutus, 82, credits Galba with a lofty style in speeches which somehow failed to survive in the written copies, which reveals as in several instances that Latin style was apt to be primarily pragmatic rather than scholastic (ibid., 137, 138). To Aemilius Lepidus Porcina (fl. about 140) he accords credit for smooth sentence structure (ibid., 131).