传记中的褒谀 ,并不能完全说是作者对其岳父的溢美之词 ,它包含着作者对罗马共和时代古朴淳厚社会道德的深切怀念和对帝制的深恶痛绝。

• The praise given to his father in law in the biography is not just words of fulsome praise, but it contains the author's deep feelings are his yearning for the simple and unsophisticated morality in Roman republican times, and his hatred for monarchy.