5. Cicero frankly (ad Atticum, l. ii. Epist. 5) or
indirectly (ad Familiar. 1. xv. Epist 4) confesses that the
Augurate is the supreme object of his wishes. Pliny is proud
to tread in the footsteps of Cicero (1. iv. Epist. 8), and
the chain of tradition might be continued from history and
marbles.