💚Professor X (NYSE.3.44.Aug.2) by Team Gummy Bears - (copy)

[Cicero, in defending Murena, the consul-elect, against the charges of Servius Sulpicius, maintains that the general has higher claims to public office than the orator.] 1 Sunt duae artēs quae possint locāre homines in summo gradū 2 dignitātis, ūna imperātōris, altera ōrātōris bonī. Ab hōc enim 3 ōrnāmenta pācis retinentur, ab illō perīcula bellī repelluntur. 4 Cēterae tamen virtūtēs per sē valent - iūstitia fidēs, 5 temperantia ; quibus omnēs intellegunt tē, Servī, excellere. Sed 6 nunc dē hīs nōn disputō. Etenim, ut dīcit clārus poēta, 7 "proeliīs prōmulgātis, spernitur ōrātor, mīles amātur." Quod 8 sī ita est, Servī, forum cēdat castrīs, ōtium bellō, stilus gladiō, 9 Ac sī nunc dē gestīs nostrī exercitūs imperātōrisque dīcerem, 10 plūrima et maxima proelia commemorāre possem. - Cicero, Prō L. Mūrēnā, 14 (adapted) {20} gradū (line 1) == rank iūstitia (line 4) == justice dispulō (line 6) - from disputāre, to argue prōmulgātis (line 7) - from prōmulgāre, to announce spernitur (line 7) - from spernere, to scorn, despise cēdat (line 8) - Note the mode stilus (line 8) == pen