He says that I am insolent, savage, and utterly abandoned in my behavior, as though he needed the use of terrifying terms to speak the truth, and could not do it in quite gentle language. But I expect you, gentlemen, to distinguish clearly between those people who are at liberty to be insolent and those who are debarred from it.
On The Refusal Of A Pension to the Invalid. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.
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