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FANNIUS. But we prefer to inquire of you. I
have, it is true, often questioned those men too, and
indeed have not been an unwilling listener, but
the thread of your discourse is of a somewhat different
texture.
SCAEVOLA. You would say so with greater confidence, Fannius, if you had been present recently
in Scipio's country home during the discussion on
the Republic. What an advocate of justice Laelius
was then against the elaborate speech of Philus!
FANNIUS. Ah! but it was an easy thing for the
most just of men to defend justice.
SCAEVOLA. Well, then, would not the defence of
friendship be easy for that man who has preserved
it with the utmost fidelity, constancy, and sense of
justice, and thereby gained the greatest renown?
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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