Nor is it now matter of great interest that the actor should have been highly praised as a man by his advocate; but it is something for us to know that the stage was generally held in such low repute as to make it seem to be a pity that a good man should have taken himself to such a calling.
In the year 76 B.C.Cicero became father of a daughter, whom we shall know as Tullia--who, as she grew up, became the one person whom he loved best in all the world--and was elected Quaestor.

Cicero tells us of himself that in the preceding year he had solicited the Quaestorship, when Cotta was candidate for the Consulship and Hortensius for the Praetorship.

There are in the dialogue De Claris Oratoribus--which has had the name of Brutus always given to it--some passages in which the orator tells us more of himself than in any other of his works.

I will annex a translation of a small portion because of its intrinsic interest; but I will relegate it to an appendix, because it is too long either for insertion in the text or for a note.[84].