But Cicero robbed not at all.

Even they who have been most hard upon his name, accusing him of insincerity and sometimes of want of patriotism, because his Roman mode of declaring himself without reserve in his letters has been perpetuated for us by the excellence of their language, even they have acknowledged that he kept his hands studiously clean in the service of his country, when to have clean hands was so peculiar as to be regarded as absurd.
There were other means in which a noble Roman might make money, and might do so without leaving the city.

An orator might be paid for his services as an advocate.

Cicero, had such a trade been opened to him, might have made almost any sum to which his imagination could have stretched itself.

Such a trade was carried on to a very great extent.