him again, when his talk and actions are similar.  Do you not see, too, that after Caesar’s death when our affairs were settled in a most tranquil way by Antony, as not even his accuser can deny, the latter left town because he deemed our life of harmony to be alien and dangerous to him?  That when he perceived that turmoil had again arisen, he bade a long farewell to his son and to Athens, and returned?  That he insults and abuses Antony, whom he was wont to say he loved, and cooeperates with Caesar, whose father he killed?  And if chance so favor, he will ere long attack Caesar also.  For the fellow is naturally distrustful and turbulent and has no ballast in his soul, and he is always stirring things up and twisting about, turning more ways than the sea-passage to which he fled and got the title of deserter for it, asking all of you to take that man for friend or foe whom he bids.

[-4-] “For these reasons be on your guard against man.  He is a juggler and imposter and grows rich and strong from the ills of others, blackmailing, dragging, tearing the innocent, as do dogs; but in the midst of public harmony he is embarrassed and withers away.  It is not friendship or good-will among us that can support this kind of orator.  From what other source do you think he has become rich or from what other source great?  Certainly neither family nor wealth was bequeathed him by his father the fuller, who was always trading in grapes and olives, a man who was glad to make both ends meet by this and by his washing, and whose time was taken up every day and night with the vilest occupations.  The son, having been brought up in them, not unnaturally tramples and dowses his superiors, using a species of abuse invented in the workshops and on the street corners.

[-5-] “Now being of such an origin yourself, and after growing up naked among your naked companions, picking up pig manure and sheep dung and human excrement, have you dared, O most accursed wretch, first to slander the youth of Antony who had the advantage of pedagogues and teachers as his rank demanded, and next to impugn him because in celebrating the Lupercalia, an ancestral festival, he came naked into the Forum?  But I ask you, you that always used all the clothes of others on account of your father’s business and were stripped by whoever met you and recognized them, what ought a man who was not only priest but also leader of his fellow priests to have done?  Not to conduct the procession, not to celebrate the festival, not to sacrifice according to ancestral custom, not to appear naked, not to anoint himself?  ’But it is not for that that I censure him,’ he answers, ’but because he delivered a speech and that kind of speech naked in the Forum.’  Of course this man has become acquainted in the fuller’s shop with all minute matters of etiquette, that he should detect a real mistake and be able to rebuke it properly.