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In order to seem to have a deeper knowledge of the law, they talk of Trebatius,Horace, Serm. ii. 1; Cicero, Ad Fam. vii. 5, 8, 17. Cascellius,Of the time of the first triumvirate; cf. Val. Max., vi. 2, 12; Hor., A.P. 371. and Alfenus,Alfenus Varus, cf. Hor., Serm. i. 3, 130. and of the laws of the Aurunci and Sicani,Typical of antiquity; cf. Virg., Aen. viii. 51 ff.; Hor., Serm. i. 3, 91; Gell. i. 10, 1, 2. which were long since forgotten and buried many ages ago along with Evander’s mother.A humorous superlative of antiquus. Evander is typical of antiquity (Hor., Serm. i. 3, 91; etc.), and his mother carries us back a generation. And if you pretend that you have purposely murdered your mother, they promise, if they have observed that you are a moneyed man,Cf. xiv. 6, 12, note 3; Cic., Agr., ii. 22, 59. that their many recondite studies will secure an acquittal for you.
