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You add real causes of the enmity between you, that your
father as tribune of the people prosecuted the father of Lucius Flaccus when he was curule
aedile. But that ought not to have been very annoying even to Flaccus's father himself;
especially as he, who was prosecuted, was afterwards made praetor and consul, and the man who
prosecuted him could not even remain in the city as a private individual. But if you thought
that a reasonable ground for enmity, why, when Flaccus was military tribune, did you serve as
a soldier in his legion, when by the military law you might have avoided the injustice of the
tribune? And why did the praetor summon you, his hereditary enemy, to his counsels? And how
sacredly such obligations are accustomed to be observed, you all know.
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