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demand to see our own censor's returns. I suppose no one knows that at the time of the last
census he was with that most illustrious general, Lucius Lucullus, with the army; that at the
time of the preceding one he was with the same man when he was in Asia as quaestor; and that
in the census before that, when Julius and Crassus were censors, no regular account of the
people was taken. But, since the census does not confirm the right of citizenship, but only
indicates that he, who is returned in the census, did at that time claim to be considered as a
citizen, I say that, at that time, when you say, in your speech for the prosecution, that he
did not even himself consider that he had any claim to the privileges of a Roman citizen, he
more than once made a will according to our laws, and he entered upon inheritances left him by
Roman citizens; and he was made honourable mention of by Lucius Lucullus, both as praetor and
as consul, in the archives kept in the treasury.
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