Pingue atque peregrinum

Marcus Tullius Cicero made at least eighty-eight speeches during his career (fifty-eight still survive)

One of his judicial speeches is called Pro Archia Poeta
This speech is on behalf of the poet Aulus Licinius Archias who in 62 BC was accused by a certain Gratius of having assumed the citizenship illegally. The speech, which furnishes nearly all the information concerning Archias, states that he had celebrated the deeds of Gaius Marius and Lucullus in the Cimbrian and Mithridatic Wars, and that he was engaged upon a poem of which the events of Cicero's consulship formed the subject.

I wish to highlight a part of it:
<26> Quid? a Q. Metello Pio, familiarissimo suo, qui civitate multos donavit, neque per se neque per Lucullos impetravisset? qui praesertim usque eo de suis rebus scribi cuperet, ut etiam Cordubae natis poetis, pingue quiddam sonantibus atque peregrinum, tamen auris suas dederet. Neque enim est hoc dissimulandum (quod obscurari non potest) sed prae nobis ferendum: trahimur omnes studio laudis, et optimus quisque maxime gloria ducitur. Ipsi illi philosophi, etiam in eis libellis quos de contemnenda gloria scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt: in eo ipso, in quo praedicationem nobilitatemque despiciunt, praedicari de se ac nominari volunt.

You can read the translation here.
Pay attention to the "pingue quiddam sonantibus atque peregrinum" (though their style sounded coarse and outlandish).

Lol, it seems the problems to learn new languages come from far away in time. My ancestors had the same problems in learning Latin that I have in learning English.

"Cunctator"?

Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus was a Roman politician and soldier, born in Rome around 275 BC and died in the same city in 203 BC.
He was known as Cunctator ("delayer" in Latin),due to his tactics during the Second Punic War.

His acts were transcribed by Plutarch is his Parallel Lives. Plutarch compared the tactics of Fabius, in the middle of the crisis in Rome, with the ones of Pericles, at the top of the apogee of the democratic Athens. I strongly recommend its lecture, it is definitively worthwhile.

After Rome had a major loss in the Lake Trasimene, where Gaius Flaminius was surprised by an ambush from Hannibal's army, the Senate decided to make Fabius dictator during six months, that meant giving him the absolute power.
Fabius decided not to oppose direct battle to Hannibal, which was a wise move. However, Rome did not agree and he was called several times coward and even traitor. To illustrate the discontent his right hand, the head of equites disobeyed him and went to attack Hannibal almost losing the Roman Army with him.

Six months later, the Senate elected Gaius Terentius Varro & Lucius Aemilius Paullus as consulae, who had the opposite strategy. The output was the disaster of Cannae.

I felt sometimes like being Fabius (with the obvious difference).
Trying to explain what is reasonable with arguments, but people prefer to listen to whom tells them what they wish to hear.
However, I decided not be a Cunctator, they are adults so they make the choices.