And is that man to be put on his trial
 for covetousness, who, when employed on a business affording numerous opportunities for such
 conduct, shunned all base gain,—who, in a city much given to evil speaking, and in an office
 surrounded with suspicion avoided, not only all accusation, but even a single hard name? I pass
 over points which I ought not to pass over that in his private affairs no covetous action, no
 eagerness about money matters, no sordid conduct in the management of his estate can be alleged
 against him. By what witnesses, then, can I refute these men except by you? Shall that villager from near Tmolus,—a man not only a stranger to us, but not
 even known among his own neighbours,—teach you what sort of a man Lucius Flaccus is, whom you
 yourselves have known to be most modest as a youth, whom our most extensive provinces have found
 to be a most conscientious man and whom our armies know by experience to be a thoroughly brave
 soldier and vigilant general, and of a lieutenant and quaestor most moderate; whom you
 yourselves, being witnesses on the spot of his conduct, have judged to be a thoroughly wise and
 consistent senator, a most upright praetor, and a citizen wholly devoted to the republic.