Thus the word _pleading_ signifies rather an amicable suit between friends than a quarrel between enemies.
It is not easy to resist a powerful people, if you allow them no rights, or next to none.
The old Romans would not allow any living man to be either praised or blamed on the stage.
XI.

Cicero says that comedy is an imitation of life; a mirror of customs, an image of truth.
Since, as is mentioned in that book on the Commonwealth, not only did AEschines the Athenian, a man of the greatest eloquence, who, when a young man, had been an actor of tragedies, concern himself in public affairs, but the Athenians often sent Aristodemus, who was also a tragic actor, to Philip as an ambassador, to treat of the most important affairs of peace and war.
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