It was then that the "Vigintiviratus" was refused, which Quintilian mentions to his honor.

It was then that he refused to be Caesar's lieutenant.

It was then that he might have been fourth with Caesar, and Pompey, and Crassus, had he not felt himself bound not to serve against the Republic.

And yet the biographer does not hesitate to load him with infamy because of a playful word in a letter half jocose and half pathetic to his friend.

If a man's deeds be always honest, surely he should not be accused of dishonesty on the strength of some light word spoken in the confidence of familiar intercourse.