When Petillius and Quintus brought before the people many accusations against him, he remarked that on this very day he had conquered the Carthaginians and Hannibal, and he said that he himself, with a garland on, was on his way up to the Capitol to offer sacrifice, and he bade anyone who so [p. 169] wished to give in his vote about him. With these words he went his way, and the people followed after, leaving behind his accusers still speaking.1
1 There are many references to this incident. Cf. Moralia, 540 F; Plutarch's Life of Cato Major, chap. xv. (344 D), Polybius, xxiii. 14; Livy, xxxviii. 50-51; Aulus Gellius, iv. 18. See also the note on the similar action of Epameinondas, Moralia, 194 B, supra.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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