text: " When Cicero jested with Trebatius on the little importance of a Roman jurist among hordes of Celtic barbarians he little thought that from that despised country would arise a nation before the blaze of whose conquests the splendour of Roman Empire would grow pale; a nation which would carry the art of government and the enjoyment of freedom to a perfection the idea of which had it been presented to the illustrious orator stored as his mind was with all the lore of Grecian sages and with whatever knowledge the history of his own country could supply would have been consigned by him with the glorious visions of his own Academy to the shady spaces of an ideal world