See in that treatise with what praises frugality, and continency, and fidelity to the marriage tie, and chaste, honorable, and virtuous manners are extolled.
VIII.

I marvel at the elegant choice, not only of the facts, but of the language.

If they dispute (_jurgant_).

It is a contest between well-wishers, not a quarrel between enemies, that is called a dispute (_jurgium_), Therefore the law considers that neighbors dispute (_jurgare_) rather than quarrel (_litigare_) with one another.
The bounds of man's care and of man's life are the same; so by the pontifical law the sanctity of burial * * * They put them to death, though innocent, because they had left those men unburied whom they could not rescue from the sea because of the violence of the storm.
Nor in this discussion have I advocated the cause of the populace, but of the good.
For one cannot easily resist a powerful people if one gives them either no rights at all or very little.
In which case I wish I could augur first with truth and fidelity * * * IX.

Cicero saying this in vain, when speaking of poets, "And when the shouts and approval of the people, as of some great and wise teacher, has reached them, what darkness do they bring on! what alarms do they cause! what desires do they excite!" Cicero says that if his life were extended to twice its length, he should not have time to read the lyric poets.
X.As Scipio says in Cicero, "As they thought the whole histrionic art, and everything connected with the theatre, discreditable, they thought fit that all men of that description should not only be deprived of the honors belonging to the rest of the citizens, but should also be deprived of their franchise by the sentence of the censors." And what the ancient Romans thought on this subject Cicero informs us, in those books which he wrote on the Commonwealth, where Scipio argues and says * * * Comedies could never (if it had not been authorized by the common customs of life) have made theatres approve of their scandalous exhibitions.