Nam M. Cicero quantum in utraque re de qua loquimur momenti sit oratione quam pro Gallio habuit significavit, M. Calidio accusatori exprobrando quod, praeparatum sibi a reo venenum testibus chirographis quaestionibus probaturum adfirmans, remisso vultu et languida voce et soluto genere orationis usus esset, pariterque et oratoris vitium detexit et causae periclitantis argumentum adiecit totum hunc locum ita claudendo:
M. Cicero showed the importance of the two factors of which I speak in the speech he delivered in defence of Gallius. He taunted the prosecutor M. Calidius in that, while asserting his intention to prove by witnesses, writings, and interrogations that the defendant had prepared to poison him, he spoke with a relaxed countenance, languid voice, and a slack oratorical style. At one and the same time Cicero exposed a fault in the speaker and added an argument to the case of the accused, wrapping up the whole topic thus:
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