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And as this is the case, what reason have you for doubting about his
citizenship, especially as he was enrolled as a citizen of other cities also? In truth, as men
in Greece were in the habit of giving rights of citizenship to many men of very ordinary
qualifications, and endowed with no talents at all, or with very moderate ones, without any
payment, it is likely, I suppose, that the Rhegians, and Locrians, and Neapolitans, and
Tarentines should have been unwilling to give to this man, enjoying the highest possible
reputation for genius, what they were in the habit of giving even to theatrical artists. What,
when other men, who not only after the freedom of the city had been given, but even after the
passing of the Papian law, crept somehow or other into the registers of those municipalities,
shall he be rejected who does not avail himself of those other lists in which he is enrolled,
because he always wished to be considered a Heraclean?
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