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The most illustrious men of our state, in the
best of times, used to think this most honourable and glorious for them to ward off
injuries from their hereditary friends, and from their clients, and from foreign nations
which were either friends or subjects of the Roman people, and to defend their fortunes.
We learn from tradition that Marcus Cato, that wise man, that most illustrious and most
prudent man, brought upon himself great enmity from many men, on account of the injuries
of the Spaniards among whom he had been when consul. We know that lately Cnaeus Domitius
prosecuted Marcus Silanus on account of the injuries of one man, Egritomarus, his
father's friend and comrade.
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