Institutio Oratoria

As examples I may cite the praise of Sicily and the rape

of Proserpine [*](Verr. I vii. 27. ) in the Verrines, or the famous recital of the virtues of Gneius Pompeius in the pro Cornelio, [*](See note on IV. iv. 8.) where the great orator as though the course of his eloquence had been broken by the mere mention of the general's name, interrupts the topic on which he had already embarked and digresses forthwith to sing his praises.