Great cooks are far rarer, believe me, than great orators, or great artists, although the world in general does not rank them as it should.
"Jane Lends A Hand"
Shirley Watkins
There was competition among these orators.
"Long Ago, Far Away"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster
What her ultimate fate was we do not know, but the language of Cicero, Caelius, and Catullus show that she could inspire as deadly hatred as passionate admiration, and that the 'Juno-like' charm of her beauty, the grace and fascination of her presence, the intellectual accomplishment which made poets and orators for a time her slaves, did not save her from sinking into the lowest degradation.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar