Institutio Oratoria

Calvus for example in his speech against Vatinius makes an admirable remark:

You know, gentlemen, that bribery has been committed and everybody knows that you know it.

Cicero again in the Verrines [*](I. xv. 43.) says that the ill-name acquired by the courts may be effaced by the condemnation of Verres, a statement that comes under the head of the conciliatory methods mentioned above. The appeal to tear also, if it is necessary to employ it to produce a like effect, occupies a more prominent place in the peroration than in the exordium, but I have expressed my views on this subject in an earlier book. [*](IV . i. 20, 21.)