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Now you have seen the kindness and
zeal of the others; how devoted to me was Caius Cestilius, how attached to you, how uniformly
faithful to our cause. What did Marcus Cispius do? I know how much I owe to him and to his
father and brother; and they, though they had some personal grudge against me on their own
private account, still disregarded their private dislike out of recollection of my services to
the state. Also, Titus Fadius, who was my quaestor, and Marcus Curtius, to whose father I was
quaestor, cherished the memory of our connection with all zeal, and affection, and courage.
Caius Messius made many speeches in my behalf, for the sake both of our friendship and of the
republic. And he at the beginning proposed a special law respecting my safety.
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