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But
why do I speak of the claims of hospitality with reference to so inhuman a monster?
He who entered Sthenius of Thermae, his own connection, whose house, while received
in it in hospitality, he had plundered and stripped, in the list of criminals in his
defence, and who, without allowing him to make any defence, condemned him to death;
are we now to expect the claims and duties of hospitality from him? Are we dealing
with a cruel man or with a savage and inhuman monster? Could not the tears of a
father for the danger of his innocent son move you? As you had left your father at
home, and kept your son with you, did neither your son who was present remind you of
the affection of children, nor your father who was absent call to your recollection
the indulgence of a father?
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