Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Address to the Graduates of the Law School of Columbia College
During the Saturnalia there was less gravity and more abandonment, especially in the days of the Empire. One of the seven days in Macrobius is partly given to repeat ing witty sayings, and among these he records various jokes of Cicero, in which amusement, jacunclissimus at in omnibus, he excelled, as in all things. The great orator who thundered with tempestuous vehemence against Catiline and Verres could, in his genial moments indulge in humor, play of thought, and pleasing satire. On one occasion he did not spare even his own brother.
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