The Life of Cicero #260414

It has been the habit of some latter writers, who have left to Cicero his literary honours, to rob him of those which had been accorded to him as a politician. Macaulay, expressing his sqrise at the fecundity of Cicero, and then passing on to the praise of the Philippics as senatorial speeches, says Of him that he seems to have been at the head of the 'i' minds Of the second order. We cannot judge of the classification without knowing how many of the great men of the world are to be included in the first rank. But Macaulay probably intended to express an opinion that Cicero was inferior be; cause he himself had never dominated others as Marius had done, and Sylla, and Pompey, and Caesar, and Augustus. But what if Cicero was ambitious for the good of others while these men had desired power only for themselves!