That would merely substitute one form of biography for another. […] No statement of unrealized intentions is a safe guide to history, for it is unverifiable and therefore the most attractive form of misrepresentation. […] For the correct form of the name, cf. […] On‘Poppaedius’, the true form (not ‘Pompaedius’), cf. […] In form, the speech was brief and moderate:1 the audience was inflammable.