Piso

and when Piso, in Tacitus calls Germanicus the son of a Roman Prince, not of a Parthian King;

There was more of prejudice, therefore, than truth in the reproach, which Piso cast upon the Athenians of his own time, refusing to consider them as Athenians since they had become extinct by so many disasters, and were nothing more than a base mixture of all nations of the earth.

Cicero, in his speech against Piso, says, “it makes no great difference especially in a consul, whether he harasses the government by moving ruinous laws, and making mischievous speeches, or suffers others to do the same.

But the man who, referring all things to pleasure, lives like Gallonius, but talks like that frugal Piso — him I do not hear, nor think that he says what he means.

' 'And yet that point, Piso,' said I, 'must be confirmed by you again and again;