Five civil wars and more in twenty years drained the life-blood of Rome and involved the whole world in strife and anarchy. […] Compare also Cicero’s whole argument in the speech against the land bill of Rullus. […] The Secular Games were once an observance of the Valerii; 3 and men could remember whole wars waged by a single clan. […] The help of the bankers was private and personal, not the considered policy of a whole class. […] His defence can hardly cover the whole of his career.