The orators who lived near his time also reprehended in him his sedulous care for a certain long cadence at the end of his periods, and noted the words esse videatur5 which he uses so often. As for me, I prefer a cadence that falls shorter, cut into iambics. To be sure, he does sometimes mix up his rhythms quite roughly, but rarely. My ears have noted this passage: “Ego vero me minus diu senem esse mallem, quam esse senem, antequam essem.”6 The historians come right to my forehand. They are pleasant