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When going from
thence to Rome he approached
Aquinum, a pretty numerous
company (for it is a populous municipality) came out to meet him. But he was
carried through the town in a covered litter, as if he had been dead. The people
of Aquinum acted foolishly, no
doubt; but still they were in his road. What did the people of Anagnia do? who, although they were out of
his line of road, came down to meet him, in order to pay him their respects, as
if he were consul. It is an incredible thing to say, but still it was only too
notorious at the time, that he returned nobody's salutation; especially as he
had two men of Anagnia with him,
Mustela and Laco; one of whom had the care of his swords, and the other of his
drinking-cups.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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