Institutio Oratoria

There are others which belong to a diflfrent species, but the same genus, such as

1. Nor let thy vineyards slope toward the west,

Georg. ii. 298.

or

1. In that hour
2. Be it not mine beneath the open sky
3. To court soft sleep nor on the forest ridge
4. Amid the grass to lie.

Georg. iii. 435.

For in the first of these passages he is not advising some other person, nor exhorting himself in the second, his advice in both passages being meant for all. Sometimes, again, we speak of ourselves as though we were referring to others, as in phrases like,

Servius asserts, Tullius denies it.

[*](i. e. I, Cicero, deny it. Halm suggests that the passage comes from an unpublished portion of his speech in defence of Murena. cp. Pro Mur. xxvii. 57. )

At other times we speak in the first person instead of in another, or substitute one person for another. Both devices are employed together in the pro Caecina, where Cicero, addressing Piso, the counsel for the prosecution, says,

You asserted that you reinstated me: I deny that you did so in accordance with the praetor's edict.

[*](pro Caec. xxix. 82. ) The actual truth is that it was Aebutius who asserted that he had reinstated the defendant, and Caecina who denied that he had been restored in accordance with the praetor's edict. We may note also a further figure of speech in the contracted dixti, which has dropped one of its syllables.