88) as a man of wonderful memory.
[18] Quintus Hortensius was eight years older than Cicero; and, till Cicero's fame surpassed his, he was accounted the most eloquent of all the Romans.

He was Verres's counsel in the prosecution conducted against him by Cicero.

Seneca relates that his memory was so great that he could come out of an auction and repeat the catalogue backward.

He died 50 B.C.
[19] This treatise is one which has not come down to us, but which had been lately composed by Cicero in order to comfort himself for the loss of his daughter.
[20] The epigram is, [Greek: Eipas Helie chaire, Kleombrotos Hombrakiotes helat' aph' hypselou teicheos eis Aiden, axion ouden idon thanatou kakon, alla Platonos hen to peri psyches gramm' analexamenos.] Which may be translated, perhaps, Farewell, O sun, Cleombrotus exclaim'd, Then plunged from off a height beneath the sea; Stung by pain, of no disgrace ashamed, But moved by Plato's high philosophy.
[21] This is alluded to by Juvenal: Provida Pompeio dederat Campania febres Optandas: sed multae urbes et publica vota Vicerunt.

Igitur Fortuna ipsius et Urbis, Servatum victo caput abstulit .-- Sat.