Naturalis Historia
C. Plinius Caecilius
Deinde video et in foro positas volgo. Hinc enim ille Crassi oratoris lepos agentis sub Veteribus; cum testis compellatus instaret: dic ergo, Crase, qualem me noris?
After this I see that they were commonly placed even in the forum: to this is due the famous witticism of the pleader Crassus, when appearing in a case Below The Old Shops; a witness called kept asking him: ' Now tell me, Crassus, what sort of person do you take me to be?'
Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from C. Plinius Caecilius: Natural History (Volume IX. Books 33-35), Loeb Classical Library Vol. 394, translated by H. Rackham, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1952, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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