Much earlier, in his defense  of the poet Archias, Roman consul Cicero appealed to his own practical wisdom and expertise as a politician: "Drawn from my study  of the liberal sciences and from that careful training to which I admit that at no part of my life I have ever been disinclined."
Beaucoup plus tôt,  dans sa défense du poète Archias, Ciceron a fait appel  à sa propre sagesse pratique et à son expertise politique : « Tiré de mon analyse des  sciences libérales, et de cette formation à laquelle je m'astreins, je ne fus jamais peu disposé.