[18]
In the first place he ventured to say that Caecina could not be the heir of Caesennia,
because he had not the same rights as the rest of the citizens, on account of the disasters
and civil calamities of the Volaterrans. Did he, therefore, like a timid and ignorant man, who
had neither courage enough, nor wisdom enough, not think it worth while to enter on a doubtful
contest about his rights as a citizen? did he yield to Aebutius, and allow him to retain as
much as he pleased of the property of Caesennia? No; he, as became a brave and wise man, put
down and crushed the folly and calumny of his adversary.
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.