But I, on the contrary, argue in
 this way. The authority of Cluvius would be less if be were speaking on his oath, than
 it is now when he is not speaking on his oath. For then, perhaps, he might seem to bad
 men over eager in being a witness in a cause in which he had been judge. But now he must
 appear to all his enemies most upright and most wise, inasmuch as he only tells his
 intimate friends what he knows.