Fur es, ait Pedio:  Pedius quid?  Crimina rasis
     Librat in antithetis; doctus posuisse figuras
     Laudatur.  Bellum hoc! hoc bellum! an Romule ceves? 
     Men’ moveat quippe, et, cantet si naufragus, assem
     Protulerim?  Cantas, cum fracta te in trabe pictum
     Ex humero portes? 
                              PERSIUS, sat. i. ver. 85.

     Theft, says the accuser, to thy charge I lay,
     O Pedius.  What does gentle Pedius say? 
     Studious to please the genius of the times,
     With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes. 
     He lards with flourishes his long harangue: 
     ’Tis fine, say’st thou.  What! to be prais’d, and hang? 
     Effeminate Roman! shall such stuff prevail,
     To tickle thee, and make thee wag thy tail? 
     Say, should a shipwreck’d sailor sing his woe,
     Wouldst thou be mov’d to pity, and bestow
     An alms?  What’s more prepost’rous than to see
     A merry beggar? wit in misery! 
                                          DRYDEN’S PERSIUS.

[f] For Cassius Severus, see s. xix. note [a].

[g] Gabinianus was a teacher of rhetoric in the reign of Vespasian.  Eusebius, in his Chronicon, eighth of Vespasian, says that Gabinianus, a celebrated rhetorician, was a teacher of eloquence in Gaul. Gabinianus, celeberrimi nominis rhetor, in Gallia docuit. His admirers deemed him another Cicero, and, after him, all such orators were called CICERONES GABISTIANI.

Section XXVIII.

[a] In order to brand and stigmatise the Roman matrons who committed the care of their infant children to hired nurses, Tacitus observes, that no such custom was known among the savages of Germany.  See Manners of the Germans, s. xx.  See also Quintilian, on the subject of education, lib. i. cap. 2 and 3.

[b] Cornelia, the mother of the two Gracchi, was daughter to the first Scipio Africanus.  The sons, Quintilian says, owed much of their eloquence to the care and institutions of their mother, whose taste and learning were fully displayed in her letters, which were then in the hands of the public. Nam Gracchorum eloquentiae multum contulisse accepimus Corneliam matrem, cujus doctissimus sermo in posteros quoque est epistolis traditus. Quint. lib. i. cap. 1.  To the same effect Cicero:  Fuit Gracchus diligentia Corneliae matris a puero doctus, et Graecis litteris eruditus. De Claris Orat. s. 104.  Again, Cicero says, We have read the letters of Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi, from which it appears, that the sons were educated, not so much in the lap of their mother, as her conversation. Legimus epistolas Corneliae, matris Gracchorum:  apparet filios non tam in gremio educatos, quam in sermone matris. De Claris Orat. s. 211.  Pliny the elder informs us that a statue was erected to her memory, though Cato the Censor declaimed against shewing so much honour to women, even in the provinces.  But with all his vehemence he could not prevent it in the city of Rome.  Pliny, lib. xxxiv. s. 14.