Am I, he says, for the sake of Pompey to bring down hordes of barbarians on my own country, sacrificing the Republic for the sake of a friend who is here to-day and may be gone to-morrow?
Or for the sake of an enemy, if the reader thinks that the "hunc" refers to Caesar.

The argument is the same.

Am I to consider an individual when the Republic is at stake?
Mr.Froude tells us that he reads "the words with sorrow and yet with pity." So would every one, I think, sympathizing with the patriot's doubts as to his leader, as to his party, and as to his country.

Mr.Froude does so because he gathers from them that Cicero is premeditating the murder of Caesar! It is natural that a man should be judged out of his own mouth.

A man who speaks much, and so speaks that his words shall be listened to and read, will be so judged.