c.f. Cicero, pro Cluentio140[νεκρός σύνδεσμος], and de Oratore2.223: both relate an anecdote where a certain M. Iunius Brutus, in an attempt to humiliate Crassus, handed him copies of his speeches 'For the Narbonian Settlement' and 'For the Servilian Law', in order to demonstrate how Crassus had adopted inconsistent positions over time regarding the Senate and equites.
Cicero, De Oratore, 2.141: 'the whole case turned upon one abstract question, founded in the facts of the matter, and not in any occasion or personalities: the words in the will being "if a son is born to me, and such son dies before, etc. etc., then let so-and-so be me heir"; but no son having in fact been born, ought that party to inherit who was nominated heir in substitution for a deceased son?'
c.f. Cicero, pro Cluentio140[νεκρός σύνδεσμος], and de Oratore2.223: both relate an anecdote where a certain M. Iunius Brutus, in an attempt to humiliate Crassus, handed him copies of his speeches 'For the Narbonian Settlement' and 'For the Servilian Law', in order to demonstrate how Crassus had adopted inconsistent positions over time regarding the Senate and equites.
