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May I
not therefore, mention, with your approbation, Caius Marius, the original
author of that conduct and of that precedent which is found so much fault
with by you? Do you require any more weighty example? any one of more
consistent wisdom? any one more eminent for virtue and prudence, and
conscientiousness and equity? Did he, then, confer the freedom of the city
on Marcus Annius Appius, a most gallant man, and one endued with the most
admirable virtue, when he knew that the treaty made with Camertum had been
most solemnly ratified, and was in all respects a most equitable one? Is it
possible, then, O judges, that Lucius Cornelius should be condemned, without
condemning also the conduct of Caius Marius?
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