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At that time which passed before
he came into office and became a public character, he may have free and untouched as
far as I am concerned. Nothing shall be said of his drunken nocturnal revels; no
mention shall be made of his pimps, and dicers, and panders; his losses at play, and
the licentious transactions which the estate of his father and his own age prompted
him to shall be passed over in silence. He may have lived in all infamy at that time
with impunity, as far as I am concerned; the rest of his life has been such that I
can well afford to put up with the loss of not mentioning those enormities.
This text is part of:
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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