[Footnote 120: On the Oppian law we may hear the mitigating
speech of Vaerius Flaccus, and the severe censorial oration
of the elder Cato, (Liv. xxxiv. l - 8.) But we shall rather
hear the polished historian of the eighth, than the rough
orators of the sixth, century of Rome. The principles, and
even the style, of Cato are more accurately preserved by
Aulus Gellius, (x. 23.)]