quotus enim quisque Calvi in Asitium aut in Drusum legit? At hercule in omnium studiosorum manibus versantur accusationes quae in Vatinium inscribuntur, ac praecipue secunda ex his oratio; est enim verbis ornata et sententiis, auribus iudicum adcommodata, ut scias ipsum quoque Calvum intellexisse quid melius esset, nec voluntatem ei quo <minus> sublimius et cultius diceret, sed ingenium ac vires defuisse.
How very few there are who read his impeachment of Asitius or Drusus! On the other hand, the orations entitled Against Vatinius  are a common textbook with students, especially the second: for it is rich in style as well as in ideas, and well suited to the taste of a law court, so that one may readily see that Calvus himself knew the better part, and that his comparative lack of elevation and elegance was due not so much to want of taste as to want of intellectual force.
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