Note 271 — Chapter XII
Reading edition
Αὐτόμαλος ὠνομάζετο is the phrase of Dio Cassius. "Levissume transfuga" is the translation made by the author of the "Declamatio in Ciceronem." If I might venture on a slang phrase, I should say that αὐτόμαλος was a man who "went off on his own hook." But no man was ever more loyal as a political adherent than Cicero.