I shall say but little of some other Balbus's, mentioned by ancient Authors.
Lucius Lucilius Balbus, disciple of Mucius Scavola, and preceptor of Servius Sulpitius, was an excellent Lawyer.
Cicero says, that Servius Sulpitius did exceed his master, who, by the addition of a mature judgment to his learning, was fomething slow, whereas his disciple was quick and expeditious.
Balbus's writings are lost, to which perhaps his disciple Servius Sulpitius did not a little contribute, by inserting most of them in his own.
We must not, as Glandorpius has done, confound this Balbus with *Quintus* Lucilius BALBUS, the philosopher, and one of Cicero's interlocutors in the books de Natura Deorum.
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