Quid aliud infestis patribus nuper Eprius Marcellus quam eloquentiam suam opposuit, qui accinctus et minax disertam quidem sed inexercitatam et eius modi certaminum rudem Helvidii sapientiam elusit? Plura de utilitate non dico, cui parti minime contra dicturum Maternum meum arbitror.
What was it save his eloquence that enabled Eprius Marcellus a short while ago to confront the senate, with everyone against him? Ready for the fray and breathing defiance, he could parry the blows of the philosopher Helvidius, who for all his clever speaking was, as regards that sort of contest, an inexperienced novice. I need say no more under the head of practical advantage, for here my friend Maternus is not at all likely, I take it, to join issue with me.
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