On the other hand, some might argue that the argument presented by Cicero in De Oratore on violence is a fair conclusion that Cicero has made after observing the political environment of his epoch, and it would be illegitimate to completely disregard such an opinion. In fact, the records of the early Roman Republic are full of accounts of violence regarding the clash between the patricians and the plebs, and it is quite evident that such tradition of violence would be an important background material for the better known violence of the late Republic, and would deeply influence the following generation, as well as reflect the continuity of the Roman attitude towards violence and the policies of Cicero’s own career (Lintott, 1999). In the paragraph