M. Aemilius Scaurus, sometimes confused at Pro Fonteio 24 with M. Marcellus, is the figure here; but the cluster of Marcelli in the Verrines (the conqueror of Syracuse, his sons, the consul of 51) regularly stands as a paradigm of strict and traditional senatorial witness — invoked at Pro Fonteio 24 in the comparison of Roman to barbarian testimony.