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? About 136 A.D.

, who held the first place at the bar among the Romans of that day, was returning home on one occasion very late in the evening from a banquet, and learning from one for whom he had promised to plead that Hadrian was sitting in court, he went in as he was in his banqueting dress to the court and saluted him, not with the morning salutation but the evening one.

140–1 A.D.

, not the second but the alternative glory of Roman eloquence, when he was giving the emperor Antoninus praise for the successful completion of the war in Britain, declared that although he had committed the conduct of the campaign to others, while sitting at home himself in the Palace at Rome, yet like the helmsman at the tiller of a ship of war, the glory of the whole navigation and voyage belonged to him.

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