"He spoke," says Wraxall, "with great ability and good sense, but the slow, measured, and sententious style of enunciation which characterized his eloquence, appeared to English ears cold and stiff: unfortunately, too, for Flood, one of his own countrymen, Courtenay, instantly Opened on him such a battery of ridicule and wit, as seemed to overwhelm the new Member.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

Of the total of 193 centuries, the first class had eighty and the equestrians eighteen: together ninety-eight, or a majority of the voting units.
— from A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur E. R. (Arthur Edward Romilly) Boak