Yet the reference to Cicero's eloquence, and to his supremacy in the law courts-, Tanto pessimus omnium poeta Quanta tu optimus omnium patronus- seems to point to some exercise of Cicero's special talent as an advocate, for which Catullus was grateful.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
A rapidly accelerating retreat, faster and faster, as the disc changed from the dull red of normal defense to the higher and bluer Quanta of failing, less complete defense, the disc of interference retreated.
"Invaders from the Infinite"
John Wood Campbell
I could have been invisible to Thett's ships as we followed them here, and for the greater part of the way I was, for I was sufficiently out of their time-rate, so that they were visible only by the short ultra-violet, which would have put in their infra-red, and, no photo-electric cell will work on Quanta of such low energy.
"Invaders from the Infinite"
John Wood Campbell