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RHETORIC AND SCHOLARSHIP<br />

'Androclus <strong>and</strong> the lion' (5.14) is justly celebrated. Again, his opinions are<br />

always worth hearing: witness his balanced discussion of Cato's speech 'In<br />

defence of the Rhodians' (6.3) <strong>and</strong> his comparisons of passages in Caecilius<br />

<strong>and</strong> Men<strong>and</strong>er (2.23) <strong>and</strong> in Cato, Gracchus, <strong>and</strong> Cicero (10.3). He compels<br />

our attention, not only as a source of information, but in his own right. We<br />

should, for instance, before we presume to judge Latin literature, try to discover<br />

how the Romans themselves judged it. Here, as elsewhere, we have in<br />

Gellius a helpful <strong>and</strong> congenial guide.<br />

680<br />

Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008

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