APPENDIX.--On the _Annales Pontificum_.


CHAPTER X.

_The History of Oratory before Cicero._

Comparison of English, Greek, and Roman oratory--Appius-Cornelius
Cethegus--Cato--Laelius--The younger Scipio--Galba--Carbo--The Gracchi--
Self-praise of ancient orators--Aemilius Scaurus--Rutilius--Catulus--A
violent death often the fate of a Roman orator--M. Antonius--Crassus--The
Roman law-courts--Bribery and corruption prevalent in them--Feelings and
prejudices appealed to--Cotta and Sulpicius--Carbo the younger--
Hortensius--His friendship for Cicero--Asiatic and Attic styles.


CHAPTER XI.

_Other kinds of Prose Literature: Grammar, Rhetoric, and Philosophy_
(147-63 B.C.).

Legal writers--P. Mucius Scaevola--Q. Mucius Scaevola--Rhetoric--
Plotius Gallus--Cornificius--Grammatical science--Aelius Stilo--
Philosophy--Amafinius--Rabirius--Relation of philosophy to
religion.


BOOK II.

THE GOLDEN AGE.